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Some hidden genes.
Mike Gilbert:
They are usually grey if based on E or ER at the e locus. But recessive whites based on eWH will be white or yellowish. I used to get them out of my buff bantams - not anymore.
jerryse:
yes I used to get them out of buff.I used white in the early days to produce buff.I do not think any of that line is still around.I currently get them out of birchen.Did not use any whites there.It is like getting a red headed child when no one remembers a red head in the family.It is just genetics.
greeneggsandham:
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?
John:
I haven\'t replied to the replies to this topic because I was hoping for another \"blue\" looking chick to get a photo of and two hatched the other day. The reason I said that some \"looked\" splash is that there were 3 colors that came from a pair mating of black (disclaimer - they sure look like blacks to me) birds. Black, blue and spash would go together.
Anyway the ones that looked like they may be splash may very well be white, since I kept at least one and it is feathering out white.
What do you all think is the cause of these that look to be blue. What variety/pattern will they be? Note the wing feathers are showing blue. What is weird is the cream colored areas on their backs appear to show silver on one and gold on the other as they hatched. They are not blue on the backs, but both have a similar pattern...on thier backs and backs of thier heads.
The first photo shows them, from the back side, with 3 of thier black siblings.
Jean:
John,
Give them a week and I bet they will be white.......
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