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Chicks -- one has black feathers

16 years ago

One of my hens just hatched another 6 chicks 3 days ago (This is her second brood of six this year, the others have only hatched 1 chick between all of them). Anyway, of her six chicks one has some black plumage in with the yellow. They are Chanteclers -- pure white for the last 100 years. Anyone else have this happen. Any ideas??

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greendesert
16 years ago
haha... reminds me of the line from the movie My Name is Earl. "You know how sometimes two black people make an albino baby?..."
littledog
16 years ago
I'm not that fluent with Chanteclers, but isn't the white a color variation from the regular Partridge? (multi shades of brown) If all you have a white birds and you're sure of your source, then it just sounds like a few off colored feathers. If it turns out to be a Cockerel, I wouldn't keep him for breeding.
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