Who's the daddy ?

[2chookchooks]

Way too young to sex the chicks...
As for guesses for the fathers, I'll leave that to others, but I think that for the most part all anybody will be able to do is guess.

The fizzle one started crowing yesterday , so apprently 17 days is to young to tell , but 18 is just perfect
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[drumstick diva]

I noticed the scaly leg mites too. As to picking fathers - there are just too many in consideration. How old are the chicks- their combs may be signaling early that they will be cockerels. When they get some more age on them - it would be easier to compare their traits to some of the father figures.

You obviously are not going to get a pedigree of chicks that could have many, many possible combinations behind them. We'd need to see the possible mamas as well.
My advice just take chicks you really like and accept regardless of parenthood. Hens very likely have been bred to more than one rooster on different days, so hatch mates could have different roos involved.

 

[2chookchooks]

Mardi's dad has to be a frizzle.
D1, D2 or D6

Mardi has 5 toes , would it narrow it down who his dad is if I could find out how many they have ? seeing mum only has 4 .

 

[2chookchooks]

I noticed the scaly leg mites too. As to picking fathers - there are just too many in consideration. How old are the chicks- their combs may be signaling early that they will be cockerels. When they get some more age on them - it would be easier to compare their traits to some of the father figures.
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I just messaged the lady at the farm , yes the rooster with the leg mites has been treated . That's an old photo of him when he first arrived at the rescue farm . He was hiding due to the rain when I went out to collect the eggs/chick so the lady at the farm sent me that photo, he has been treated .

The chicks hatched on January 8 & 9 . Luna ( silver smooth ) is the older of the two and hatched out at the farm . Mardi was peeping when I collected him and he hatched at my place . So they are 3 weeks old tomorrow and Madri ( red frizzle) the next day . I know know Mardi is a roo because he has crowed the last two mornings ‍

I guessed they would have different fathers , especially because one is flat feathered and one frizzled.

The mum went off and made a nest in two staked tyres in the middle of the goat pen and based on egg colour and size , and how aggressive she was ( I don't think she would have let another hen in) we are pretty sure all eggs that hatched where hers.

Here's a photo of them this morning

I just looked closely and Mardi has little wattles starting , but none on Luna yet .
I'm planning on keeping them both , especially if Luna is a girl . I was just curious and wanted to learn a little about chicken genetics.

 

[2chookchooks]

You obviously are not going to get a pedigree of chicks that could have many, many possible combinations behind them. We'd need to see the possible mamas as well.
My advice just take chicks you really like and accept regardless of parenthood. .

This is Mum, or as I referred to her out at the farm "angry mumma" , she's a mean broody .

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Oh I hope so , Thankyou for the explanation I think everyone but one person has said she's a pullet ( and they might of just guessed because they said Mardi was a girl, then he crowed the next day)
. I'm still learning what all the colours are . Is the silver the colour in her wings and tail ? Or in her chest /head ( wings looks silver to me but sometimes names are different) Any idea who Mardi's dad would be ?

So this is Luna's line ? View attachment 1248655View attachment 1248659View attachment 1248660

I'm not the best at genetics, but that looks right to me. D5 has silver patterning, which none of the other roos have, four toes, and a single comb.

Yes I've let the lady who owns him know about the scaly mites . It was an old photo , he was hiding from the rain the day I went out , so it was the one she had from when he came in, he has been treated ( he came in as a rescue like that ) View attachment 1248664 View attachment 1248667

Are these good enough comb close ups? They are from this morning. Or should I take some more ??

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Mardi has 5 toes , would it narrow it down who his dad is if I could find out how many they have ? seeing mum only has 4 .

Yup, right now his father could be D1, D2, D4, or D6. But, if you figured out who has five toes, it could be narrowed down even more.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm still learning what all the colours are . Is the silver the colour in her wings and tail ? Or in her chest /head ( wings looks silver to me but sometimes names are different)

The short simple explanation is that all chickens are silver based or gold based or cockerels can carry one of each gene silver/gold.
Basically gold based chickens have the gold/red/buff/ etc. colors.
Silver based chickens do not carry those colors. Mostly black or black and white.
Silver in some cases can have red. If you look at D5s shoulders you can see some dark red silver roosters can have that. Also some silver pullets can have salmon colored breasts.
Silver/gold isn't per say colors its what allows or doesn't allow gold/red/buff colors.
Its sex linked meaning males have spots for two genes. One from each parent.
Felmales only have one spot. They only get one gene either silver or gold. They get their copy from their fathers and pass it on to their sons only.
Cockerels can have one silver gene and one gold gene. Silver is dominate to gold so when they have both in theory the silver should hide the gold and they should appear silver.
I don't find it the case. They do hatch out silver but after you've hatch enough of them you can see telltale signs in some. As they age they get a yellows color in areas that would be gold in a gold and white in a silver.
See D5s hackles he has a yellows tint. I believe that shows he is silver/gold.
The whole silver/gold and its sex linkage is what red sex links use.
Breed a gold based rooster to a silver based hen. Pullets get gold from father and are gold.
Cockerels get gold from father and silver from mother. Silver is dominate so at hatch they have a silver color/pattern opposed to the gold color/pattern of the pullets so they can be sexed by color at hatch.
There's more to it then just that but that's a quick run through.

 

[sourland]

I have no idea who the father is, but I do know that rooster # 3 is strikingly beautiful.

 

[2chookchooks]

The short simple explanation is that all chickens are silver based or gold based or cockerels can carry one of each gene silver/gold.
Basically gold based chickens have the gold/red/buff/ etc. colors.
Silver based chickens do not carry those colors. Mostly black or black and white.
Silver in some cases can have red. If you look at D5s shoulders you can see some dark red silver roosters can have that. Also some silver pullets can have salmon colored breasts.
Silver/gold isn't per say colors its what allows or doesn't allow gold/red/buff colors.
Its sex linked meaning males have spots for two genes. One from each parent.
Felmales only have one spot. They only get one gene either silver or gold. They get their copy from their fathers and pass it on to their sons only.
Cockerels can have one silver gene and one gold gene. Silver is dominate to gold so when they have both in theory the silver should hide the gold and they should appear silver.
I don't find it the case. They do hatch out silver but after you've hatch enough of them you can see telltale signs in some. As they age they get a yellows color in areas that would be gold in a gold and white in a silver.
See D5s hackles he has a yellows tint. I believe that shows he is silver/gold.
The whole silver/gold and its sex linkage is what red sex links use.
Breed a gold based rooster to a silver based hen. Pullets get gold from father and are gold.
Cockerels get gold from father and silver from mother. Silver is dominate so at hatch they have a silver color/pattern opposed to the gold color/pattern of the pullets so they can be sexed by color at hatch.
There's more to it then just that but that's a quick run through.

So it basiclly its opposite to the dominate /recessive pattern in mammals ?

. And Luna is a pullet ?

 

[2chookchooks]

Yup, right now his father could be D1, D2, D4, or D6. But, if you figured out who has five toes, it could be narrowed down even more.

The lady at the farm just got back to me .None of them have 5 toes. .