Chickens have genes like all living things. Genes give us our traits. Traits are things like height, eye color, and hair color. In chickens, traits include things like eye color, feather color, size, and demeanor. Demeanor means their personality type. This is Grey Boy. He is a black bantam cochin. Sometimes black cochins have grey feathers. You've met Lucy before. She is another black bantam cochin. Lucette is the result of Grey Boy and Lucy breeding. When she is fully grown, she will look just like her parents. They are both black bantam cochins, so Lucette is a black bantam cochin. Meet Henny Penny again! Her brother, Red, unfortunately died while protecting his ladies from a predator. He looked almost identical to his sister, but he had a larger comb, bigger, waddles, and a long, dark tail. Henny and Red are "standard size", which means they're bigger than bantams. Collie is a mixed breed. Her father was Red; her mother is Lucy. From her mother, she got most of her feather color, her feet color, and most of her personality. Because her mother is a bantam and her father was a standard, her size is somewhere between the two. She is bigger than her mother, but smaller than her father and aunt. This is Spock (not from Star Trek!). He is Collie's twin brother. He has more of his father's color and personality. Unlike Collie, his feet are feathered, which he got from his mother. Spock and Collie are the same size--bigger than mom, but smaller than dad. Spock got his personality from his father and aunt. He tends to be a little less friendly, but isn't exactly aggressive. You have met Egg Muncher before. She is a standard size chicken, and her comb is floppy (kind of rare for a hen). Fluffy is a bantam D'Uccle. It's hard to see in the picture, but his beak is white! Say 'hi' to Stumpy! Her mother is Egg Muncher, and her father is Fluffy. She got her body size and her floppy comb from her mother. She, unfortunately for her, got her leg size from her father, as well as her white beak. She doesn't let her short legs stop her, though--she can run very fast! In the picture, her leg is almost completely straight, so you can see just how short it is. She got her overall personality from her mother. She runs away a lot, but is, also, very curious.
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