I will be there I can't wait. What time does it start I'm just watching.
Are you going to the Chicken show this weekend?
Another mystery hatch SOLVED. Except this one wasn't supposed to be a mystery...
I had a bantam laying eggs in the big pen with the rest. She had been "friends" with the porcelain d'uccle that I sold off on Christmas Eve. So when I brought her eggs inside, I figured it would be from him.
Yesterday morning, he hatched soon after I woke up. But I never looked at him. I went grocery shopping, and opened the incubator to take him out after I got back. To my surprise, he didn't have the yellow/black blended color like a porcelain d'uccle should have, nor the semi-splotched dark coloring that the hen throws sometimes. Instead, he had very distinct stripes on his back, and through his eyes, with a distinct V-shape pattern on his head.
But what threw me off, is that he has bright yellow legs and beak! I only have one breed with yellow legs and beak, and that's leghorn. But my leghorns are both HENS - I don't own any rooster with yellow legs and beak! And especially not any bantams, which is what the egg definitely was (I even know exactly which hen it came from).
I was stumped!
That was, until this morning, when I remembered that one of my chicks came to me last year from McMurray Hatchery with very distinct markings like that. No blending, no shading, and very defined lines where each color stopped and started. And most importantly, he had the stripe going through his eye.
So I looked it up on the website, and sure enough these chicks will HATCH with yellow beaks and legs, but they turn darker as they grow up.
So somehow, my little bantam hen was pinned down at some point by... My large fowl PHOENIX!
Look at that cute wittle face!
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:00 PM Williamson Bros Bar-B-Q 1600 Marietta Highway Canton, GA 30114
