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This is the hen that is moving to Jacqui's home (Queen_Bee). I have always found her colouring interesting, and would now very much like to be able to tell her new owner what mutation she is. She is the mother to the CFW next to her. So I am assuming that she is either split or this is recessive. Her mate in appearance is a normal. I have always found it very interesting that her belly is cream coloured and she also has little breast bars.

Sorry I can help decipher the mutation but she is cute!!

Yes she certainly is a cutie. With those exaggerated tear drops it looks like she might be split to Black Cheek. Thinking too that the white spots on her head and neck / breast area might be the result of Pied. Checking around the bird room for similarities but strangely enough the one thing our flock hardly ever produces are Normal Gray females. In fact right now we have none, not even a Gray Pied hen. Do have a pile of boys though and when I look at him from the direct front, our buddy Sym bears a strong resemblance to your hen.

This little one has had me confused from the beginning. At first I was sure that she was a male with the hint of breastbars. But then she had her first clutch Ok, its a girl. I believe that I was also once told that she was split for black cheek by someone here on the forum. Here is the post from when she was first born http://www.finchforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6188
Her mom is a pied fawn hen and dad was a normal pied. I also know that her mothers brother was a CFW, and she has popped out so far 10 boys all normal and one CFW female. I don't know if any of this will help, but I figured I would through it out there anyway.

Janine, my black cheek hen has traces of a breast bar too. I'd also say she's split for BC and pied. Also, CFW is a sex linked mutation, which hens can't be split for. Her mate is split for CFW, which is how you got a cfw female chick out of 'em.

I hope I wroe that in a way that makes sense.

She's adorable!

Same here Miss Janine..Black cheek city down here!!! I have one female without any black on her cheek and another hen offspring that has hints of a breast bar and another with strong flank markings , all from the same parents.

Janine, I have offspring from one of the two pairs of black cheek...one female has no black cheeks at all, another female has strong dark flank markings and one has a hint of a breast bar, meanwhile all the male offspring have dark big black cheeks and markings.