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Guest:
Does this bird look to be black gold.



Rooster

John:
She may be something to use toward making black gold, but I wouldn\'t use her because of the willow legs.
Below is the LF F1 pullet that I used this season.  She is half buff and half brown red.  I used a brown red cockerel over her.  He was 1/2 bantam and had lacing all the way down his breast.  I\'ve got a long way to go.
 

John:
I may have posted this before, but here is one of my F1 bantam black gold pullets.  Greg has her now.  I hatched a few dozen pullets and raised them up last year.  Then I culled them down to the best three that I used to breed from this season.  Once again we have a long way to go, if perfection is the goal, but I bred from the best I had available.

Mike Gilbert:
In making black gold from \"scratch\" try to avoid females with salmon or near salmon colored breasts.   That would usually indicate \"wild type\", or small e at the e locus.   Black golds are birchen (E>R) at the e locus.    The ultimate goal is to have a bird (female) that is laced and shafted on every feather, even the breast feathers.   The lacing and shafting are superimposed over a black (or as near black as possible) background.   Obviously salmon on the breast will prevent the proper color from being expressed.

Mike Gilbert

Guest:
The pullet in the picture is heterozygous birchen and ?. She hatched form a cross between a easter egger and a monique blue egger. I hatched out a bunch of eggs for a lady who wanted easter egger chicks. She had black muffs and beard so I kept her in order to see her adult color.

I am not working toward the black gold color.

In order have a quality bird the feather must be black with gold lacing. And each feather should have a gold shaft.
Is that correct?


Michael,

What was your source of birchen for your birds from the brown red variety ?  

Rooster

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