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Andrew Johnson:
I recently messaged Susan about black colored ticking of the hackle feathers. She advised me to get more opinions from others that may have come across this issue. This pullet has the worse case of it, as she also has more black spots throughout most of her body. I also have 1 or 2 more pullets that have the ticking on the hackles, but not near this dark. This is also the only 2 pictures I have of her as it has been raining here most afternoons this week. If needed I may be able to get more sometime this weekend. Any advice would help.

DeWayne Edgin:
Are you sure they aren`t crossed with something else? They almost look like males but i don`t think they are. They are to young to see the normal ticking that we see show up though. Im not sure what you got going on here though. Some people aren`t aware that if you seperate a hen and a rooster the hen can still lay a fertile egg for weeks afterwards. If they are running with other roosters and you seperate them to breed, i would wait for atleast 15 days before i breed them again. This one has lots of Wheaten markings though so i wouldn`t think it was an accidental pairing. But you have something wrong. It maybe a throw back of something in your line from way way back as well.

Don:
Andrew, this looks like some mutation that seems to happen once in a while with Wheaten and maybe Silver varieties.   I am not sure that anyone has concluded the exact cause for this color variation.  I seems like there were several proposed explanations back at that time.  Take a look at this post from a few years ago and see if these colors look similar to the young birds you are seeing. Are the males showing any different coloring, and are there other females that look like more even feather coloring?   

  http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/forum/index.php/topic,2509.0.html

Birdcrazy:

--- Quote from: Don on June 17, 2016, 11:08:25 PM ---Andrew, this looks like some mutation that seems to happen once in a while with Wheaten and maybe Silver varieties.   I am not sure that anyone has concluded the exact cause for this color variation.  I seems like there were several proposed explanations back at that time.  Take a look at this post from a few years ago and see if these colors look similar to the young birds you are seeing. Are the males showing any different coloring, and are there other females that look like more even feather coloring?   

  http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/forum/index.php/topic,2509.0.html

--- End quote ---

Nice work Don. This is a perfect example how the search feature can help with past articles on various subjects. Looks like you hit the nail on the head!

Andrew Johnson:
Sorry it has taken me so many days to reply as my daily duties have piled up on me over the weekend with all the rain we had last week. This pullet was purchased from Briana Moore earlier this year and is of Paul Smith's line. I was hoping more would have been came across since it was brought up before as just a mutation in coloring. We do have 2 others that have some spotting on the wing feathers but nether are this extensive. I will take a few pictures of the others and post later this evening.


edit by adding 2 pictures of each of the other 2 pullets

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