Who Are My Parents?

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Here’s a picture my SIL sent me when he first hatched

 

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I think I’ll make this a progression posy so it makes the guessing a little easier

 

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Buckle up, kids, this is gonna be a doozy. I’ll start by introducing the star of the show: Oppy, the chick that’s missing some toes and has the 5 toe gene, ironically. Hatched the 17th by a kindergarten class and sadly was the only one to make it ( power kept going out during incubation ). They gave him back to me and luckily I was able to give him to a broody hen named Boots.
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Anyways, I want to figure out the possible mix he is or at least make a fun guessing game out of it. There’s 62 chickens in play ( well, a little less since some are the same breed but you get the point ) and only 7 are roosters.

to get the ball rolling, I’ll introduce the potential dads who are all different breeds:

Maude, Easter Egger
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Iggy, Light Brown Leghorn ( has since passed )
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Bojingles, Mille Fleur d’Uccle
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Drago II, Salmon Faverolles ( he does have a beard, someone apparently likes to over preen him )
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Blueberry, Blue Cochin
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Tater Tot, BB Red OEGB
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Caramel Latte, mix/some kind of wyandotte mix/barnyard breed
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NOW comes the hard part: all the potential moms. He apparently hatched from a light brown egg but even that really doesn’t slim the list down because most of my hens lay brown eggs, but I can eleminate all of my Ameraucanas, olive eggers, Easter eggers, and white leghorns. I’ll end up including some breeds that are “supposed” to lay white but y’know how hatchery quality can be sometimes.

Ritz, light Brahma ( doesn’t have feathered feet, though. Hatchery quality )View attachment 3126739

Audrey, lavender orpington
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Pumpkin, buff silkie
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Tilly, black sex-linkView attachment 3126678

Junebug, speckled sussex
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Glucose, silver penciled Plymouth Rock
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Violet, columbian wyandotte & Poppy, mille fleurView attachment 3126684

Dolly, golden laced wyandotte
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Stella, ( beardless salmon faverolles ) & Meryl Cheep ( what they are supposed to look like ) View attachment 3126687View attachment 3126690
Nevermore, black sumatra View attachment 3126695

Gladys, blue laced red wyandotte View attachment 3126699

Nala, hatchery mix. She does have the 5 toe geneView attachment 3126701
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Cookie, hatchery mix as well. Has the 5 toe gene. Can’t remember if she went broody before or after I got the eggs for the kindergarten to hatch, so I’m including her too. View attachment 3126703
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Sparrow, barnyard mix.View attachment 3126704

Yukon, black australorpView attachment 3126707

Roxanne, another barnyard mix
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Ghostie, the production blue rock ( not the Plymouth Rock )View attachment 3126709

Babs, blue cuckoo maran
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Momo, Egyptian Fayumi
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Valerie, barnevelder View attachment 3126714

Uno, partridge cochinView attachment 3126717

Maisy, jubilee orpington
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Dee, buff laced polishView attachment 3126720
Nelly, barred rockView attachment 3126721

Beatrix, blue cochinView attachment 3126726

Comet, mottled Ancona View attachment 3126728
Bluey, blue copper Maran View attachment 3126729

Turkey, barred rock x black sex-link ( Nelly’s daughter )View attachment 3126730

Miss Prissy, not sure really. Was supposed to be a black australorp but she has yellow skinView attachment 3126731

Boots, mottled cochin bantam. I’ll add her on because I’m not sure if she went broody before or after either. View attachment 3126672

Okay, so I think I got all of my hens. I tried to keep my dark brown layers off the list because I knew for sure they laid dark brown.

We need Maury

 

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We need Maury

Lol, just a little.

 

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Oppy picture dump

 

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Oops, not all of the pictures uploaded

 

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For a moment I thought I had an “ah ha!” moment on at least figuring out the dad but I got to looking at my other feathered footed chickens and they all kind of have short, nubby outer toes unlike the clean footed ones. Sorry, Blueberry, but I can’t say you are the father for sure. Though, he does have some real nubby toes….so maybe he is the dad?

 

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@Overo Mare thoughts on this Maury-esque guessing game?

 

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@TheOddOneOut if you want to take a whack at this mess too lol