My Pink Hen Project
My “Pink Hen” Project has been both an interesting and frustrating project that I have been working on for a couple of years.
It all started when I purchased some eggs from a person that said they had Chocolate Hens bred to a Sweetgrass Tom. The idea of adding a Chocolate gene into the Sweetgrass genetics interested me so I ordered 15 eggs. When they arrived I discovered most had frozen in shipping I managed to set 3 eggs that I thought might have a chance and from those eggs hatched a single poult.
At hatch this poult was a cream yellow in color with a single Light brownish red smudge on the top of the head?
It all started when I purchased some eggs from a person that said they had Chocolate Hens bred to a Sweetgrass Tom. The idea of adding a Chocolate gene into the Sweetgrass genetics interested me so I ordered 15 eggs. When they arrived I discovered most had frozen in shipping I managed to set 3 eggs that I thought might have a chance and from those eggs hatched a single poult.
At hatch this poult was a cream yellow in color with a single Light brownish red smudge on the top of the head?
As the poult developed it turned a light pink color (obviously carrying Red genes)! Through my investigations on this poult I determined that it could not have come from a Sweetgrass or Chocolate. However the color still interested me.
In 2011, I also incubated some Bourbon Red eggs for a customer, One of which when feathered out was very light in color Bourbon Red “Buff” do to it carrying an extra (cg) Palm and (ng) Narragansett gene. I did some trading and kept the buff colored Tom with the plan of breeding him to the Pink Hen in 2012. When this Tom matured I was not pleased with him so I did not do this breeding in 2012.
In the spring of 2013 I acquired another Tom that is a Red Palm. In 2013 I bred this Red Palm Tom to my pink hen and have had some good returns of birds that are looking just like the Pink Hen.
This is still a “Project” in the works!
In the spring of 2013 I acquired another Tom that is a Red Palm. In 2013 I bred this Red Palm Tom to my pink hen and have had some good returns of birds that are looking just like the Pink Hen.
This is still a “Project” in the works!
More Pictures and Info to come!