Chicks

[Hen-Gen]

Forty eight chicks hatched over the last 24 hours. What joy.
No power cuts please,

The first picture below stolen from Google image is what you get if you do Blue x Buff Orpingtons Among my hatchlings are Blue Jersey Giants and Buff Leghorns. I hope next year I’ll get some like that. They’re really pretty.
The second picture is Blue Buff Columbian, a reversal of the colours. Fascinating hobby!

 

[Marigold]

What beautiful birds. What joy!
Have you found out how to post pics HenGen? I was waiting for you to email me some lamb photos to post on here, but no need if you can now get the right file size.

 

[Hen-Gen]

No I still can’t. It’s fine if I copy and paste. But if I screenshot or photograph then I can’t post on here. Lambs are due this coming week.

 

[rick]

Looking forward to seeing what happens! These above are lovely!
(Do you use a Windows desktop Hen-Gen? Anyway the copy and paste works well, its getting big jpegs off the camera though. All these systems have the equivalent of the 'Paint' program which allows you to resize its just a matter of finding it.)

 

[Tweetypie]

Oh what beautiful Easter chicks! They're like little rainbows,beautiful tri colours.

 

[MrsBiscuit]

And yet they still retain that distinctive orpington-ness, particularly around the head, of an ordinary blue. Its making me all nostalgic! Lovely chicks. Are any of those birds, particularly the second group, anything like what I remember reading about as the colour 'isabel'? I can't quite remember what it looked like, or what it might be called more correctly.

 

[bigyetiman]

They are lovely, a fine looking bunch

 

[Hen-Gen]

Yes they are beautiful aren’t they.
Mrs Biscuit, Isabel is the name given to bicolour that possess the lavender gene. The black areas are changed to lavender and the gold areas are “bleached” to a pale straw colour. Perhaps this is most usually seen in tricolour Pekins where the colour Mille Fleur is changed into the colour Porcelain.
I don’t know whether any of you have seen the book Genetics of Chicken Colours by Sigrid van Dort but it explains chicken colours in glorious technicolour. It’s one of my most prized books.
Isabel Brahmas,

and a porcelain Pekin

 

[Tweetypie]

Stunning hens. The last one is gorgeous. A proper supermodel

 

[Marigold]

More from HenGen;

Here’s a few chicks at 5 days old. It’s 7C here today so understandably most of them are hiding under electric hens. Anyway the gold ones are Buff Leghorns, the grey ones are Blue Jersey Giants and the black ones are Dominiques.

 

[MrsBiscuit]

Isabel is a lovely colour, I remember thinking I liked it, but it wasn't (then) available in orpingtons, at least not that I knew about, although as you have explained how its made, and there were a sprinkle of lav orps then and probably more now, I guess somebody was/is creating them. The pekin is wonderful, she looks a proper show stopper, but there is something about the massive birds which I just adore.

You'll have to keep an eye on the chicks and tell us when the JGs start to become larger!

 

[bigyetiman]

Love the Pekin.
Chilly up your neck of the woods today then.
Nice looking chicks