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Some hidden genes.

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John:

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Are yours like these from 2002?  I had these for a number of years.  The gene seemed to work much like lavender.  Black was diluted to a very light gray/smoky white and red was diluted also, but not as much.  Maybe I\'ve still got it floating around in my LF blacks.  Didn\'t think of that.
I quit calling them smoky, since I am quite sure it isn\'t the same as the dominant gene by the name.

Guest:
The eggs that I purchased from white Ameraucanas this spring feathered white, though one was hatched blueis. I also purchased a quad of adults at the same time; so far every every chick from the pure whites has hatched looking exactly like the darker chicks you pictured John..................... and are feathering smokey colored or light blue. I also did some splits off my B/B/S and the same white roo; most look like properly bred blue or black, a couple hatched without the light under pattern but with some heavy red bleed, and two hatched yellow with dark back stripes on their backs and light colored shanks.  :o However, I finally checked my calender and saw the B/B/S had only cleaned for a little over 2 weeks when I started gathering; they could possibly have been from either a Dark Cornish or a dominate white Ameraucana/CX cross

Mike Gilbert:
Dark Cornish are wheaten at the e locus, and the chicks that were yellow, dark stripes, and light colored shanks sound exactly like wheaten based chicks - mixed with something else.

Guest:

--- Quote from: Mike Gilbert ---Dark Cornish are wheaten at the e locus, and the chicks that were yellow, dark stripes, and light colored shanks sound exactly like wheaten based chicks - mixed with something else.
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Thank you for that information Mike.

The oldest striped chick is now feathering gray with some black or dark gray patterning and white tips on its first feathers..................... I\'m guessing it will loose the white tips. It\'s shanks have gone pale slate. I\'m not experienced at matching genotypes to down color, but would take a wild guess it\'s a silver/partidge mix. Since I\'ve not yet hatched one white chick from the white on white breedings, I\'ve toe punched all the chicks from these hatches, suspect both the white roo and some of my B/B/S girls were not carrying the proper genotypes, and calling the chicks EEs. Since the buffalo gnats culled all but one blue hen of both lines, I needed to start over anyway. Unfortunetly , I lost my other line of blues/blacks also.

ETA: Perhaps I spoke too soon; the second Ameraucana chick hatched out today, though not dry yet, appears to have \"dirty white\" down.    

Guest:
So far I\'ve hatched thirty some eggs from my now deceased flock...................... two are obviously recessive white.

Several were hatched with this pattern; is it the same as John\'s weird genotype? [There are white laced red Cornish chicks in the pics also]

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