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Guest:
John, I\'ve been trying to attacha photo for quite some time noe and it\'s not going through. I have a question ... did you have any melanin inhibition in shank & eyes with your smokeys? Were your homozygous smokeys grey/blue?

John:
I don\'t know if you are not sure of the variety of the bird you have posted but it is blue.  
I don\'t know that any of the smoky birds that I have and had are/were pure/homozygous.  I think they had the I^S dominate smoky gene, but again don\'t know that.  I don\'t think it has any effect on the eye color, but the shanks are always very dark slate.  I didn\'t breed for smoky, but used them in breeding projects for other varieties (just to see what I would get).  A few years ago some hatched as sports and I don\'t know what mating they came from.
Go to: http://marsa_sellers.tripod.com/geneticspages/page3.html and scroll down to Smoky to read about it.
Here are a couple more pics.

Guest:
Sorry, I had tried to attach that picture so many times I was too frustrated to retype everthing again! This bird is one that I feel is expresing the Id/dunn or Is/smokey as well as the Blue. Please notice how his eyes are yellow & shanks are very pink; I am wondering if this is how dermal melanin inhibition looks, which is a problem with I/dominant white ... and is it a problem with Id & Is as well. But from what you say ...maybe not although one photo has a bird with a pink/white beak.
I have gone to the sight and one of the differences in Dunn & Smokey is how it expresses when homozygous. I also received my APA Standards book and Batam genetics book, which are not proving to be as helpful as I had hoped.
I truely appreciate your time in helping me!

John:

--- Quote ---This bird is one that I feel is expresing the Id/dunn or Is/smokey as well as the Blue.
--- End quote ---

By \"This bird\" do you mean the one in the photo that you attached above?  He just looks like a blue male to me.

Guest:
Yes. I have 2 other Blue Roosters that are a lovely rich dark blue/dark grey on mane/hackles, saddle, and tail. Granted, they do bleach out over the year. \"This\" Bird begins with this kaki tinge. Also, at the beginning of this thread I attached a photo of 3 hens on a perch, with the middle one being what you had thought a smokey and others thought a dunn. So, I\'m trying to best guess what I have tracking along with the blue so that I can breed it out (and please don\'t say cull as I have many feathered enemys that cull my flock. Survival is first on my list for a \"keeper\"!).

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