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Mike Gilbert:
You have to mate two birds that are both hetero (one gene instead of two) for Mb (muffs and beard) to get clean faced.
Usually homozygous Mb birds will have fuller muffs and beards than heteros.   Homozygous Mb to clean faced matings will yield 100% heteros.   So if you want to purify your flock it may be wise to test mate suspected heteros to clean faced birds.   If you get any F1 chicks from the test mating with clean faced, you will know the tested bird is hetero for Mb.

Guest:
I\'ve come back to look at her pics several times, and suspicion she\'s not cleaned faced; but very sparcly muffed. I would not use her to breed either way, and would be looking at my related birds with a pretty hard eye; but to each their own.

Jess:
Evening,
Thanks folks for the advice.
I didn\'t want to use her for a breeder so I gave her to my daughter-in-law yesterday.
That leaves me with three to get eggs from to set.
I have 25 Wheaten chicks comming from Ms Barbara Campbell at the last of this month, so I think this will get me off to a good start.
I plan to cull real hard to start with.
I will keep only the best of the best.
Thanks again
Jess

grisaboy:
She may just have lost her beard. Molted or picked out by the others.  Wait and see if it grows back.  You have several nicely bearded birds so you don\'t need to use her if her beard doesn\'t grow in.

Curtis

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