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"Calico" wheaten

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Schroeder:
Great looking birds Royce.  I really appreciate your replies to all my emails asking questions about our favorite variety.  You mentioned a "Calico" wheaten.  Did she look like this pullet?  The coloring showed after the first molt.  She was picked on so much by the others that she didn't survive.  I had another like her a couple of years ago.  I had asked Jerry Segler to explain the genetics behind the coloring and he could not.  I figure if he doesn't know, it must be a fluke mutation.
Duane

Tailfeathers:
Thank you, Duane.  I've never kept one of those pullets to the age yours is but I'd say probably - yes.  Although mine have been darker over all too.  I think I will keep one of the two this year just to see what she turns out like after the first molt and what color egg she lays.  I might even breed her and keep a few chicks just to see what the progeny turns out like.  Mostly likely I won't keep any of those offspring though.

John:
Duane and Royce,

When I saw the photo I thought I'd seen one before like that and searched thru some files.  I believe this pullet, I hatched back in 2009, has the same pattern you guys are talking about. 
I think it is from what they call a mosaic mutation.

Beth C:
Looking at that last picture, I remember getting one of those the first year or so I raised wheatens. There was only the one, and she went to a friend of mine as a layer, so I'd forgotten all about her.

DeWayne Edgin:
This maybe a different issue but, i had a red golden pheasant hen that looked great for almost 3 years. Then she turned colors and looked just like a male exept for her eyes. I have seen photos of a few Ameraucanas from different breeders that had pullets do this to. I read on the internet in a forum that the golden pheasant female can damage their ovaries and their hormones will change causing them to change colors! Can this also happen to chickens and has anyone else heard about this before?

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