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Some hidden genes.

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Mike Gilbert:
Jensen, I don\'t think you could get a splash from a black to black mating, so if you got a white both parents were carriers of the recessive white gene.   You could breed it to another recessive white and get all whites.   But if you bred it to a hetero dominant white you would get colored birds.

John:
The top chick is one that hatched today from the black pair that produced the other chicks of mine on this topic.
The other photo is of the same one that I posted back in February.  It is feathering out white.
This new one today just looks different to me than the other.  Maybe not much, but the overall color reminds me of the ones I had several years ago that I thought may be smoky (aka smokey).  I\'m quite sure that isn\'t what they were after more research.
Anyway the wing feathers aren\'t showing much yet, but they don\'t look white at this point...more gray.  I\'ll take another photo in a few days.

greeneggsandham:
I love that chick down color!  Very pretty.

Guest:
John, any news on the color development?

I thought you might be interested; my first two white Ameraucanas  hatched Saturday, one the color of your first two pictured, the other the same color and pattern [with the white dot on the head quite defined] as the second ones you posted. Their first wing feathers are coming in white, as expected.

PS I alredy knew to expect some that would be  indestinguishable from blues; and another from this same group of eggs, hatched by somone I sold them to, produced a chick you would have trouble seperating from a group of blue chicks. This line has a history of this, but always feather white.

John:
Update...here is one of the chicks that looked \"blue\" when hatched.  If it is recessive white at work here it is not alone.  

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