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Guest:
I totaly agree about the tail that is why I try and breed birds to me that look game. As far as the comb part of it well stop and think about it this way if your males have defects or DQ\'s are their sisters going to have the same ones? I frequently show birds in a color varety that are full brothers and sisters.

Now back to the original subject. Could the chipmunk stripes on wheaten chicks be a result of the wild type pattern bred into them? I know many families of Wheaten OE have BB Red bred into them as Wheatens are notorious for loseing their tail length after their first molt, many have a tail about 3\" long.

Guest:

--- Quote from: John ---Here is a link to a photo of chicks on our ABC website:  http://www.ameraucana.org/scrapbook_files/wheatenb.jpg.
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I am getting a 404 (File Not Found) when I click on the link, as well as when I cut and paste it. Can you check to see if the file has been moved please? Thanks.

John:
Try the link now.  I edited it by deleting the period that I had typed at the end of the sentence.  It was being looked at as part of the link.

Guest:
It\'s interesting that this topic should come up. I have been hatching some (very deliberate) Ameraucana x Marans crosses, working to obtain what we call Olive Eggers (please don\'t yell at me about this, I do not sell them and would never do so as anything other than mutts.)

Normally, an Olive Egger has Cuckoo coloring with a pea comb and are generally out of Amer hens, sired by Marans cocks. But in my last two hatches, two with really odd coloring came out of Marans eggs, meaning their sire was the Amer cock, and dam a Marans hen.

I am pretty sure the hen is one I have who has a golden cast to her feathers. She came from a local breeder who  did not know the bloodline, so who knows what genetics are in there, and I may well sell her due to this. But now, some photos:

Here is a link to a purebred Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucana chick:



And here are links to the Olive Egger who hatched out of a Marans egg:


Here\'s the same chick at about four weeks:



And here\'s the chick now, at about six weeks
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It\'s pretty obvious his father was my Wheaten cock, but his hackles are a lighter gold than wheaten, and his feathering is odd. I don\'t know enough poultry genetics to comment, perhaps someone else can? I do know I\'ve gotten two other chicks who look just like this, with luck one will be a pullet and I can try breeding them together to see if it breeds true. At any rate, a fun experiment in genetics...

Blue Egg Acres:

--- Quote from: Mike Gilbert ---I have noticed that the wheaten chicks from my bantams that do have spots in their chick down seem to have better tail and wing color when they are grown than the  chicks that are hatched with no spots.
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Mike, have you noticed that those chicks also tend to have more hackle striping? In my experience, the heavier the spotting/striping in the down color, the heavier the hackle striping as adults.

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