njoy Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I bought some hatching eggs for my broody pekin, a mix of gold partridge and millifeur, six have hatched which is great, we have four dark coloured chicks with some brown on their new wing feathers and two sandy coloured chicks. Does anyone know if millifleur start out as dark chicks or do they have speckles from the beginning? Also are the two sandy ones gold partridge, one of the sandy chicks seems to be growing some white feathers on her/his back, confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Tea Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Not sure ...... but I have a Millefleur chick and she looks like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 My MF started off sandy coloured hence her name Sandy Don't think my GP was as dark as yours though.........will go back to the photos & have a look......... Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Here's a vid of the GP with the rest of her hatch, she's the darkest of the lot, but still not as dark as yours....... Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 There are a couple of impressive combs there, njoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 It looks like the lighter ones are the millefleur ones I'm not sure what the dark ones will turn out like, the look much to dark to be gold partridge, were the breeding pens pure or crossed colours running together? the default of many cross colourings tends to be black A couple of boys in there at least but some pretty girls too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatsCube Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 If it helps this chick here is our gold partridge And here is another of our chicks which is lighter in colour and at the moment Im speculating that its millifleur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarlettohara Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 This is my 7 weeks old millefleur, the only dark chicks I have hatched turned out to be blue cuckoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njoy Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Many thanks for all the replies, so it looks like I have two millifleur and four dodgy gold partridge. Hmmm, annoying when I made a point of getting the eggs from someone I thought kept pure breeds instead of going to ebay. It was the gold partridge that I was particulary interested in raising, ho hum you live and learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...