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Jean:
Even though buff is a solid color it has it's challenges.  The color is very hard to get right.  The bird is supposed to be an even color with the buff in the under color and down the shaft.  I have found that it is another color that you need to hatch in large quantities.

Cesar “CJ”:

--- Quote from: Jean on April 09, 2015, 10:10:42 PM ---Even though buff is a solid color it has it's challenges.  The color is very hard to get right.  The bird is supposed to be an even color with the buff in the under color and down the shaft.  I have found that it is another color that you need to hatch in large quantities.

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Jean, Great point. I totally forgot about that. I guess it will be white lol.

Cesar “CJ”:

--- Quote from: Don on April 09, 2015, 09:42:54 PM ---Cesar,   I have too many bantam colors to do it right, so will probably drop some this next season.  I have very small numbers of whites and lavs.  The whites are better by far.  They can be crossed to improve the lavs as they are both based on E.   The first cross will be splits showing black, probably with leakage etc.  But as Jean has mentioned, recessive whites can hide genes that might come back to haunt you.  Jerry DeSmit shared a trio of wheatens with us at the national and I would really like to get a number hatched of all these colors.  I tried to get some buffs from several breeders last year and it never really came together.  The buffs are one of my favorites too.     

I have a larger number of silvers from three lines.  They each have challenges.  But I still enjoy them none the less.   They are very active and productive.  There are even a few birchens that have come from one of the lines.

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Don, I guess you would have to use some whites that you know where bred from E. Have you hatched out any whites this season so far? If so how many are you planning on hatching?

Don:
Cesar,   The black E can still carry recessive white in the back ground.  I had whites start showing up in my black Plymouth rock bantams after keeping them for about 20 years.  So things can crop back up after a long period and recessive white is really good at covering other colors, much better than dominate white.  It seems backward.  The whites are a nice color, or lack there of.  But white birds are very hard to keep show ready.   The buffs have more color variation.  But they are a great color and will really shine in the show hall especially if more folks would work with them.   So why not get both and some silvers too?

I do have a few in an incubator now.  Hopefully its early in the season for bantams.
I sent you a pm.       

Susan Lussos:
hi Folks  -- While I realise that this thread is all about bantams, I am not sure if you include LF it the colour improvement would be much different...at least from what I've seen at shows.

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