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Guest:

--- Quote from: greeneggs&ham ---I have not had any blacks throw that color chick, thankfully.  I did have a LF blue x splash cross produce a chick that was a very light blue or lavender color overall.  No cream on the underside.  It turned out to be a splash color.  Normally splash is a yellow chick down color, correct?  What if anything does that blue down chick color indicate?
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Trying to learn how to interpret and use this board. Greeneggs&ham, those are not your chicks? Since John credited you as the OP, I figured he moved your chicks picture here from the other thread. I\'m more confused than usual tonight.  :p

greeneggsandham:
No, not my pics or chicks.  I don\'t know why my name shows as topic starter.

Mike Gilbert:
John, didn\'t you at one time cross blacks with silvers?  My guess is you have a breeding pair of birds that are not homozygous for E.   You would think any of those males would show some off coloring, but apparently not in this case.   What is interesting to me is the white or creamy patch on the back of the head, as it reminds one of barred chick down.  My guess is that either these chicks did not inherit E from either parent, or there is something going on that prevents one copy of E from expressing properly.  Since they are showing \"blue\" in the wings already they are not going to be whites.

John:

--- Quote ---I don\'t know why my name shows as topic starter.
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I think I originally used my top post as a reply to another topic started by Green Eggs and later \"split\" it off so that it is now a separate topic with a title I gave it.  For whatever reason the forum is setup to show the creator of the original topic as the creator of all topics split from it.

--- Quote ---cross blacks with silvers?
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Sure, but that was to make improvements to the silvers so I didn\'t keep any crosses to produce blacks.
I\'m glad at least two chicks hatched like this to show what appears to be a pattern in the chick\'s phenotype and I don\'t think EE chicks would/should have a pattern.  It is interesting that this same pair of breeders produced the white chick and if that is what it is they both carry recessive white besides whatever gene(s) is/are needed to produce these special blues.
I\'ll grow them at least for a while to see how they feather out.

Guest:
Can you breed a white chick from one or these matings to a pure white, and get more whites...or is that not a good idea. :thinking: I may have a white from a black mating..it could just be splash. :stare:

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