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jerryse:
I would like to start a sharing of information off of the forum. Serious breeders only. Send your email address to jerrysegler@yahoo .com. Lets give this the serious effert it deserves. Theories are fine. Results are better information.If there is a way to put slate legs on these varaties we should find it. The standard says nothing about which skin layer should be used to produce slate.  No new varaties have been added to the standard since 1984. 28 years. If we have not got the existing 8 color varaties to a acceptable level or popularity in that time maybe it will not happen.  

HappyMtn:
Count me in ;)

bryngyld:
Good luck...  
I do like hearing about them on the forum and I appreciate the naysaying.  It gives me information that I will consider, evaluate, and work on.

Mike Gilbert:
Lyne, good to have your input.   How about a progress report on those black golds (and blue golds)?  Got any recent photos.
I have not hatched any yet this spring, but I do have fertile eggs in the incubator, bantams only.

jerryse:
This will be my last post on this subject. Let me start by apologising for my lack of tact. I got straight to the point and said what I felt. No apology for that. I am on high doses of predisone now and there have been some personality changes due to this med.
We have banded together to share information on a project that no one else will attempt. Many say it can\'t be done. I have seen 2 minor miracles in the past year. Slate legs on lavender cuckoo and slate legs on a smokey dominate white showing baring. This gives me hope that other genetic exceptions are out there. I see...those of us willing to take on a huge challenge, time and expense to achieve our goal of finding out if this is possible. If we only accept slate legs and only visually then it applies to all varieties. No exceptions. If there is even one exception then any variety should get the same break. This equals a level playing field in my mind. If chocolate is given a break because the epidermis is slate and only appears chocolate because of what the chocolate gene does then cuckoo and mottled deserve the same break because the epidermis is slate and the barring and mottle gene make it appear broken or spotted.  I do respect my fellow breeders...So this is plan A.
 

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