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I looked into it more, and I suspect that she is heterozygous for e^b (brown)/E^R (birchen) As 3 day chicks all of the barnies looked e^b... Birchen chicks don't have the cute little stripes :) However dark body, base colored neck is a big birchen trait, and when it is heterozygous you can get...

Going on six weeks now - I put their kennel outside full time a couple of days ago, and that seems to be going alright. Their combs are all pretty pale, which is maybe a bit concerning? I've been making sure they have access to water all of the time but I might put in another waterer in case it...

At 4 weeks, and they are getting so big! I've been noticing it for the last couple of weeks, but one of my barnevelders is a bit different from the other two - she's got much darker feathers, way less striping on each feather. I wonder what that says about their final patterns? I had assumed...

Over 2 weeks and I need to upgrade the coop size! I forgot how quickly chicks grow 😂 I have them in a kennel right now but they are definitely getting a bit cooped up. They've already started perching so I added dowels for them earlier then I expected to. I think it was just one of the...

1 week in and the chicks are doing great! So far I haven't lost any, except for the one that was sadly DOA. It's so impressive how fast they grow - they're already so much bigger then they were day 1! I might go and get some colored leg bands for them, all of my other chickens look really...

If I understand the genetics right, to get the feather pattern I'm after I need: e^b/e^b, Pg/Pg, Ml/Ml, and NOT Co/Co -- which is to say, I need the 'brown' base on the e locus, the 'pattern gene' so the feathers will have markings in the first place, one of a handful of possible melanizing...

Hello! I'm Andi, this is my third year keeping chickens, and today I just got the chicks for my first breeding project :) The first time I got chicks (my current flock) I went to a local chicken keeper and just got a variety -- no real focus. But since then I have dug deeper into chicken...