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WTH Happened here???

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Jean:
This is a bird from some hatching eggs I sold a lady this past summer.  And no, there were no birds jumping from pen to pen.

Is there some diluting gene at work here?

John:
I assume he is supposed to by wheaten.
My guess is he is a silver/wheaten cross.
If he is pure wheaten (e-locus) he still looks like he is silver/gold (S/s), but then I would assume his daddy would have to look the same.
It seems like someone posted a pic of one that came from me a while back that was off colored.  I\'ll try to search and see what it looked like.

Mike Gilbert:
Jean, did you ever keep any silver/wheaten female breeders?
He looks to be about 3/4 wheaten and a 1/4 silver.

Jean:
Never crossed the silvers and wheatens and they were housed in different barns.

And yes, from the wheaten/blue wheaten pen.

Mike Gilbert:
Mutations happen.   It is the reason we have so much diversity within each bird and animal group.   Mutations involve the alteration, usually the loss, of part of the DNA.
There is no record or real evidence of new, more complex DNA resulting from mutations.   For example, Silkies probably resulted from the loss of the portion of DNA that would have bound the feather webs together as in normal chickens.  

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