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Kev Barrett

different colour white chicks

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My first chicks I bred had one white chick which had an orange beak from day 1 my second lot of chicks has 1 white chick but has a black beak with a cheek patch and has just left the nest whats the difference in mutation please

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When you say 'Orange' beak was it more a 'Bone' colour? If it was/ is then it could be a White/Pied. If it was true yellow then it could be a member of the Yellow Beak variety.

Your other chick (if that is the one in the photo) looks to be a Grey or Black Cheeked mutation.

Hope that someone else helps out here.

Andy

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At a first look I would say that it is a White. The beak usually change to the Orange/Red when they get older.

If it is a White then both parents are carrying the Pied/White gene which is recessive and requires two to make a visual one. (hope that makes sense)

Sorry, just noticed that the parent cock is a visual White so the hen is carrying the gene.

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I love that photo. Shame you've already posted it cos I recon that would have done well in our monthly photo competition.

 

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On 4/12/2018 at 20:53, Kev Barrett said:

Thanks I will get the hang of it one day lol. Here is a pic of my latest three all siblings

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yeah, that would have got my vote.. its a *******..

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On 16/04/2018 at 11:16, Lee Pycroft said:

yeah, that would have got my vote.. its a *******..

Er? What's gone here? C r a c k e r is the word that I put! No swear words. Lol 

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Thank you all for your nice comments on the photo when I saw them all sat on the drinker I knew it was a good shot, shame I didn't realise about the monthly photo comp.but we live and learn

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