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greeneggsandham:
Ok, I have a question regarding this.  Now I have hatched LF blacks in the past that as young ones sometimes show white tips in the wing feathers or one white feather in the wing.  That has always disappeared as they molted.  But now I have hatched a couple of blacks that are showing white in places I haven\'t seen before.  They are now 16 weeks old and one cockeral is showing tiny white feathers coming out near the comb and I have a pullet with just a trace of white tipping or lining the beard feathers.  It doesn\'t look like it is silver or gold.  It looks white.  Is this recessive white showing up?  And that\'s a bad thing right?

John:

--- Quote --- Is this recessive white showing up?
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No, it is silver leaking thru.  Select against it the best you can.  

Beth C:
Along the same lines, I\'m having issues with my juvenile blacks having faint traces of white across the tips of their feathers, mostly in the lower back. Didn\'t notice it last year (only hatched a handful, though) but the one cock that I kept has no trace of white that I can see, so not sure if this will go away, but since I\'ve also had a big problem with super-slow feathering in the blacks I\'m wondering if this is the barring gene and if so, where I go from here, since they\'re all closely related.

Mike Gilbert:
It is not the barring gene.   If these are juvenile feathers, they will probably go away when the adult feathers come in.

HarryS:
I have had blacks show up with mottling in the adult plumage but they are lavender splits and as one can see the original Lavender EE has produced a lot of odd colors when it was used in the Orpington projects.  
   This is why if you have black splits lavenders they should only be used to be bred to lavenders and NOT introduced into anyones black lines.  I have seen people using the blacks splits and introducing them into their black pure lines.  Why I can not understand the reasoning to add untested birds into a line that is near pure and took so many years to perfect close to the standards.  
   All the blacks splits not used for my lavenders end up at the auctions so they could be either eaten on enter the infamous backyard type chicken breeders flock for just fun.   Good luck cleaning up the mess.  

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