Now one of the chicks is showing cinnamon markings, so the daddy's also split cinnamon. Or should we say brown, because you never know if it's a cinnamon or something else.. That chick is also pied, but a very peculiar pied indeed.

 

Here are some pics

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/ti...et/DSC03292.jpg

 

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/ti...et/DSC03295.jpg

 

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Edited October 7, 200816 yr by Elly

Now one of the chicks is showing cinnamon markings, so the daddy's also split cinnamon. Or should we say brown, because you never know if it's a cinnamon or something else.. That chick is also pied, but a very peculiar pied indeed - seems like there are no markings in the head, and she has brown flight feathers too. I think she might turn out to be something like that chick in the pied test, which most of us got wrong!

 

Here are some pics

 

 

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very interesting and your right if the hen is not a cinnamon then the cock must be split.

She's also got a little red eyes. Might be just because of the cinnamon gene, but she doesn't yet show any body colour. Could be a lacewing! But let us wait for the feathers to grow up.. Are the eyes of a lacewing supposed to be as red as an ino would have? Does anyone have experience of lacewings?

Edited October 8, 200816 yr by falki

Cinnamons can have plum eyes when first born within the first week if they go black then you will know your answer. Look forward to seeing more pics.

The chick is already 23 days old. The eyes are dark red. Maybe you could call it plum? But I think the best is to wait for the body colour to develop. It should tell more.

 

Here's her eye, a bit bad shot tho.. (I hope the pics not too big again!!)

Edited October 8, 200816 yr by falki

A new photo of the cinnamon baby! So pretty... Still dark red eyes, no visible body colour, but it might turn out to be grey. Mother was grey green and I think a grey cinnamon would look like nearly white. Don't know if she's a pied though?

 

I'll post this here too:

 

Here's a link to a picture http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/ti...et/DSC03732.jpg

 

Of those babies now. The smallest one is missing, still in the nest with the parents gathering some more weight. So, when I first thought the father was a double factor dominant pied (iris ring, only little colour and markings) and all the babies should have been dom pieds there turned out to be: 1 dom pied 3 recessive pieds 1 normal and 1 cinnamon 1 greywing and normals!! :yes: What a bunch!! That cinnamon girl though has dark red eyes still, she's over a month old.

 

Those odd brownish markings were because of the recessive pied gene, also the cinnamon seems to be a recessive pied as well as the smallest of the chicks.

 

The mother of the clutch was a greygreen opaline, now obviously split recessive too!! The father is either a dominant pied and recessive pied both visual in him, or only split recessive and rather strange looking dominant pied.

have no idea but the kids look good :party0011: