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jerryse:
Here is a pic of a barred with slate legs. There are some spots but they are slate.I have another one that is younger.Both are cockerels as this breeding produced barred cockerels only.I have a cuckoo hen from last year with slate legs.Hope to breed them and see if it reproduces.I have been reading about the id m mutation and wondering if this is what has allowed slate to show.

Mike Gilbert:
Jerry, when you have enough of these to butcher one, or if one dies, sever the leg at the hock joint and peel back the outer layer of skin.   Take some photos and post them here.  If the inside layer is dark, then I will believe it.   Until then, I will have to believe the dark pigment you are seeing is in the epidermis.  If the dermis is indeed dark, then I will have to admit you have made a breakthrough.   But you will have to prove it, and this photo does not do that.   Once again, slate shanks are comprised of a dark dermis and a clear epidermis.

jerryse:
You are right it could be the epidermis and the spots from the dermis.

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