About two weeks before I put my Black/Lavender split females with my Lavender cockerel for the first time, they\'d been in a large pen with other chickens, including a solid white male (probably dominant white) and a few red pyle project birds, mostly culls with way too much color. I incubated some eggs and was surprized when a chick hatched with yellow down. I assumed the female had been breed by the white male prior to being put with my Lavender male. Now I\'m leaning towards one of the red pyle males, because the chick didn\'t feather out solid white after all. I\'d describe this color as a very pale taupe or cream. It\'s hard to make out, but he does look like he has a white chest as a pyle male would have, but the colored areas are so pale it\'s hard to see the pattern. If it is a male, I wonder if the pyle areas will come in darker as he matures.....might not even be a male.
I found information online about Mille Fleur being diluted to Porcelain by the Lavender gene, but what color would you call it if it\'s not a Mille pattern? Would there not have to be Lavender on both sides to dilute the red/buff/gold? ...or would one dose do it? If nothing else, it sure is the most interesting EE I\'ve ever seen, lol! I put a Lavender chick in the photo to compare. Both have the dark beak and legs.
A friend of mine thinks he has one of these too from some eggs I gave him from the same batch, but I haven\'t seen it yet.
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