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Black Golds...
Mike Gilbert:
The second bird is closer than the first, but neither is really black gold. This is really a difficult color pattern. I\'m still trying to figure it out after working on it more years than I care to count. Chances are pretty good it will be like blue in that it may never breed really true 100%.
John:
Cindy,
They appear to have salmon breast color and would guess they are birchen/wildtype split from what I can see. You don\'t say what the cock was, but I would guess he was a silver. If he was blue like the hen then they would be birchen/birchen, but pooring marked for brown reds.
Mike Gilbert:
Since silver is on the sex link chromosome, I don\'t think the pullets could have been out of a silver male. They would be white and black instead of brown/gold and black.
John:
Oh, yes...I forgot about the silver/gold and spoke too soon.
They appeared to have salmon breasts, but it must just be red that I see (unless the daddy was gold).
grisaboy:
My guess is that the blue parents are E^R e+. (and gold)
These first bird looks like it could be e+e+ with extra melanizers (like a brassy back Old English). The second bird looks to be E^R e+ without all of the melanizers to make it solid black.
Curtis
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