I'm starting to get curious...

[LuxandLolita]

You stated that she had the hourglass shape in the tail feathers...I have a BC/BB (4 tail feathers showing the hourglass)...she has a faint breast bar. I also have seen this in other splits to BB, some of my fawn hens have had this. It could possibly be linked to the BB gene I would guess. I think we established she was split to BB a while ago based on her tail feathers.

So you are saying this could be due to her hidden split to BB? She has had hourglass tail feathers before, but they molt out and she only has one at any given time aha, but Lolita had multiple.. Falcon has had multiple.
Some time soon i will go to my neighbors and actually get those pictures for you..

[cindy]

I remember your post of the tail feathers...definately hourglass. Something to keep in mind that if she is split to BC also BC hens can sometimes have not a full breast bar but a smudge of black on their chest. It is not a clean look like the standards call for but it can happen.

[LuxandLolita]

Was looking through my pictures and i remembered something about Falcon.. Falcon has a thick tear.. and then i remembered i had this picture of her before her first moult. Before she got her real thick tear, and the tear line extends down further then her siblings..

Here is her a few months ago..


still trying to get some time to get new pics of the girls at the neighbors house though.. i just found these while looking through