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dak:
This year I bred my Lav cock to my best Black hens to have some splits that I intended to cross together next year.

I have noticed some cream (off white) colored leakage emerging in the saddle feathers of one of the young split cockerels.  The nicest one of course.  Am I to assume that this bird should be culled and not used for the split x split cross I intend? Or is this just the effect of being heterozygous for the Lav gene.

Clare

John:
Maybe he is not E/E, but rather E/E^R and the \"leakage\" may be normal for that bird if didn\'t inherit all the modifying genes (eumelanin enhancers) required to hide silver/gold.  
Like recessive white, lavender supposedly has to be pure (homozygous lav/lav) before it causes any effect.
Either way I would suggest not breeding from him, if you have better solid colored birds available.

Mike Gilbert:
If he has color leakage in the saddle it would be very surprising if he didn\'t develop the same in his hackle.

dak:
So far the hackles are ok, but they are young.  I will monitor the remaining males, and hope for a better male to mature out.

I seem to be getting some interesting aberations from attempting to cross to Blacks.  I have hatched a couple Lavs from a couple of Split birds I received as eggs last year and have had two Lavs that appear laced and one cockerel with cream on his shoulders.  

How common is it for the Blacks in the general population not to be E/E?

Mike Gilbert:
E/E is no guarantee a bird will be all black.  It also takes a certain amount of melanizers, just less of them than an E^R/E^R bird.    It\'s easy to get an all black hen, but they are the ones throwing the off color to their male offspring.  Apparently it does not take as many melanizers for females as for males.

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