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Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:17 pm
by Jenny d
Hey all. I have the cutest little backyard mix from an egg my uncle gave me as an extra.
Any guesses what it will grow into? Forgive the lousy photos, mama is protective and the little bugger's fast.
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:21 pm
by labradors
A penguin? :).
Linda
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:40 pm
by KimChick
black or barred?
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:30 pm
by Happy
I don't see a spot on the head so probably solid black but those white eyebrows are throwing me. She's a cutie though! Love her black legs.
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:32 pm
by WLLady
Solid black likely-possibly with white on the very tips of the wings.
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:30 pm
by kenya
Solid black.
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:31 am
by Jenny d
WLLady wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:32 pm
Solid black likely-possibly with white on the very tips of the wings.
Thanks, I was wondering what the likelihood was that the white butt/wings and face markings would stay.
I have never had a black chick or chicken, so I didn't know what to expect.
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:55 am
by WLLady
that chick down pattern is ER. the E locus dictates pretty much where the "colours" will go as an adult. ERs tend to be either solid white (in which case the chicks are blond or white) or solid black as females. The males are usually a solid base colour with the regular hackles in whatever gold or silver base. If this one is a girl it will be solid black with maybe a touch of lacing on the hackle/neck in whatever gold/silver base it is (so either gold or silver). If it's a boy the base colour will be black, and then hackles and saddle in gold, silver or lemon (depending on his background, lemon is just a combo of one copy of gold and one copy of silver). Usually on the ER background the wingtips are white in the chick down, but go away by the third full moult (the moult to adult feathers).
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:16 am
by Killerbunny
Almost looks like my black australorp chicks. They had white wing feathers until last moult!
Re: Any guesses what this will grow up to look like?
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:17 am
by Jenny d
WLLady wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:55 am
that chick down pattern is ER. the E locus dictates pretty much where the "colours" will go as an adult. ERs tend to be either solid white (in which case the chicks are blond or white) or solid black as females. The males are usually a solid base colour with the regular hackles in whatever gold or silver base. If this one is a girl it will be solid black with maybe a touch of lacing on the hackle/neck in whatever gold/silver base it is (so either gold or silver). If it's a boy the base colour will be black, and then hackles and saddle in gold, silver or lemon (depending on his background, lemon is just a combo of one copy of gold and one copy of silver). Usually on the ER background the wingtips are white in the chick down, but go away by the third full moult (the moult to adult feathers).
Wow, that is extremely interesting.
I'd love to understand better. Any chance you could recommend where to learn more about this?