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HarryS:
Would like to see pictures of different color represented by their day old chick down not excluding colors not recognized as Ameraucanas as well.

Don:
Harry,  Are you looking for groups of chicks or some different views other than those single chicks shown on the Gallery pictures?  I don't have any more chicks for this year.  Maybe some others took pictures of their hatches earlier this year.         

Harry, how were your hatches for this season?   Did you get a good bunch of candidates for the fall shows?

HarryS:
Don,  I was thinking about somehting that would show the beginner if they hatched the proper down color for the chicks to cull the ones that would create problems for them later like:
E/E Black
E/e Black
E/E^R Black  ect

Same with the Whites ect other colors

Hatched a lot of average looking chicks till I rotated my males and now I have the ones that clique much better but sort of late in the season.  Finally got my lavenders back on tract like they use to be before I lost the best in 2008

Don:
Harry,  Glad you are getting more what you are looking for in the hatches now in the new matings.  I am curious what is it in a chick that you look for, what you use to determine at an early age which chicks are better?

I Know that many threads here have discussed the phenotype of different colors and relevant aspects of the perceived underlying genetics.  It would be very helpful to have threads for different colors to discuss the chick down, and share their experiences with their lines and photographs.  This could help people to determine earlier which chicks to keep and grow out for the year.  I don't have Black or White, nor am I a very good photographer.    But maybe some of the others that breed these colors will jump in to discuss and show images with their experience in this effort.

HarryS:
Don,  I don;t breed Buffs and just got a few wheatens this year but they say there is genetic differences in the ones that have spots on their heads and the ones that don;t that are clear.

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