Wheaten Crele Orpington Project, Reboot

[MysteryChicken]

The brown chick is feathering out in the same color as my F1 hen.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The peeps will be 1 week old on Thursday. I'll share pictures of their growth then.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I might cross one Project Orpington rooster with my Red JungleFowl hybrid hen, with the partridge pattern next year just for confirmation. Or breed partridge Silkie rooster to a Buff Orpington hen.

Wouldn’t the junglefowl hybrid be duckwing?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Wouldn’t the junglefowl hybrid be duckwing?

This girl. I have one that's Duckwing, not sure what generation they are from the crossings of American Game X Red JungleFowl is. Or percentage. Someone called them Cracker Fowl, don't remember the user.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The yellow chicks are feathering out Wheaten, instead of Buff, so that's progress.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Getting update pictures of the chicks today instead of tomorrow, since they hatched Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's the chicks, the black one is obviously a cockerel.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here's the chicks, the black one is obviously a cockerel.
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You think the three others are female?

 

[MysteryChicken]

You think the three others are female?

I know they're females. I'm very familiar with the chicks I hatch from project birds. Quite often they're sexable by wing feather growth patterns. The black one has all long overlapping coverts.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Depending on how the cockerel turns out, I may sell him, or eat him. I have the max amount of cockerels in the coop right now.