Recent content by glikk

Yup, definitely got that from Ronnie (dad/rooster) not that we have any clue what his genetic make up is at all haha Could be, I mean the points on that ones comb have always been a bit bigger. I don't have the feather photos on here but he has noticeably blue/green iridescent feathers which...

Update week 5-7: 1 is definitely a cockerel and 1 has a mohawk from Dad so will be very interesting to see what happens as that one gets older. Foster mum left the chicks alone to go back to lay at about 4 weeks old. They're doing really well and are slowly integrating themselves into the flock.

So much variety! Our smallest current lays 52g eggs and the largest we've had so far was 86g

Haha yeah she looks quite a lot better now that it's been a couple months

Hugin - mixed breed

They do! Super interested to see how they mature and how they look/behave compared to the hens

Currently have 3 mixes that I've been taking progress photos of weekly. Thought it might be interesting to keep updating this as they get older. This is the Rooster and these 3 are the 'mums' not sure which chick belongs to which hen though. They're also being raised by a different hen All 3...

Willow Grey Australorp

Yep I have some entries already in there :)

We have a mixed flock of large crossbred chickens. We ended up with 4 chicks last year, they have all started laying around 6 months of age. 26 weeks, 28 weeks, 28 weeks and 29 weeks. 3 out of 4 lay eggs consistently between 52g-56g and 1 is still at 44g-45g.

Is white dominant?

Interesting terminology I'll have a read up about it, the whole flock is mixed except maybe 1 hen so it'll be a surprise no matter what. Just intriguing genetics wise. Thanks for writing that up, super helpful as I try to get my head around things!

The Roos barred mix so I'm expecting the chicks to look mostly like him. He has white legs What does the silver gene mean if you don't mind explaining, or linking me to a relevant place to find out. Thank you!

Sweet as, she's a bit of a ? Compared to the rest of flock so handy having more info.

Either or, I'm just curious what the possibilities are