The black with brown hints...are you sure it is brown and not gold?Interesting update on some babies. The Deli babies with my Marans, one is all black with brownish hints, the other is the black with some white. The one that is all black has a tail growing in nicely, but that other one hasn't got a single tail feather! I'm making an early hypothesis of cockerel on that one based on this. I could be full of BS, but I am anyway, so no harm.
As to the babies I got out of CC eggs, looking at wing feathers it does look like I have barring on the 2 black ones. That would mean Dominique babies. Yeah for Stella and Moose! I have the Hershey baby (who I think will be named Herhey's Kiss) who is got dun brown feathers coming with little black speckles on them. It will be fun to see what 1/4 choc Orp, 1/4 black Orp, and 1/2 Lav Orp turns out looking like! Then the mystery discovery....
I have 2 lavender Orp babies. Pure lavender Orp babies. Chunky Monkey is looking quite nice in its wing feathers, lavender with a few very pale ones thrown in. Then there's the petite one. It's lavender, but its wing feathers have darker lavender BARRING!! What the what?! I had my oldest look too. We compared both Lav chicks. Nope, I wasn't seeing things. What is my pure Lav Orp doing with dark Lav barring? Oh this will be fun to watch for (provided I don't kill it somehow....)
The black with white ..the white usually molts out pretty early..the all black sounds like a pullet

Sounds like you have some nice fluffy butt baby's
I hope you do come..you should enter the kids in JS
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