What's wrong with their feathers?

[Redcatcher]

We have officially hijacked this thread

. Mine is not sexually mature yet but here is one of the three gyandromorphs that was studied at the University of Edinburgh. I am collaborating with one of the biologists there. My bird might unlock the mysteries of how they occur because I have the prospective parents and they are going to be genotyped.

 

[alicefelldown]

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Let's please not. It's easier to move your convo (interesting as it is!) to another thread than try to clean this one up after the fact. This is THE thread people go to for these birds - no reason to make it harder for new followers to figure out what has been going on over this last year+.

Thanks!

 

[Redcatcher]

Well we WERE discussing the impossibilities of a genetically black bird occurring from a splash x black mating. Some things just defy explanation like this, the hatching of fart eggs, gyandromorphs and of course silkied Americaunas.

 

[Silkie-Feet]

just thinking

has anyone ever tried to raise these eggs under a broody hen? I THINK THE HATCH-RATE WILL INCREASE GREATLY.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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You would think that wouldn't you? I tried, and it didn't help. Still only 1 chick. I pulled mine into the incubator on hatch day to "help" if need be. Good thing I did. My little guy needed help. (AND it turns out that broody is a chick killer!)

 

[Redcatcher]

My F1s seem to be bantams. I thought they hatched from pullet eggs but they are remaining relatively tiny birds. The black one is now almost twice the size of the other three. I am beginning to think the black one is not an F1 but he is a very nice bird and will fit in with the program

 

[alicefelldown]

The F1s we got from her are also very small. However, our original silkied hatched from Jubaby was also very slow to develop. I wouldn't worry - none of them are or will be bantams.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Not from me.
Anyway, I have no (plain) Ameraucanas laying! LOL All the ones I have sent out were from eggs that I hatched from Julie. I have no F1s and no F1s were ever created here.

 

[Redcatcher]

Sadly, the black cockerel disappeared yesterday. I was in the process of getting the pens out back ready for them for the winter. In the mean time I had set up a temporary pen up near my back door where I could keep an eye on them. They flew over the top of it and got out. And so it goes. My own stupid fault for not getting them out there in time. I have had so few predators that I thought they would be safe for a couple days longer until the rain stopped. The black was probably not an F1 but still....You just sometimes get attached.

 

[ChooksChick]

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I'm so sorry! Perhaps you will find him? I hope so!