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Guest:

I think Horn may be the color I asked about, but I call it grisled, as it looks like the grissle in a bad cut of meat.
kind od a translucent looking red/brown \"grissled\" look to it
I asked because we have one hen with grissled looking legs, but so far most of the chicks hatch to get slate leggs.

Guest:
I looked at the bootom of the feet on all my chicks and it is not yellow, but a flesh or white color.

Guest:
The only way your birds can produce  willow shanked offspring is if the parents are not purebred for white skin. Both parents would have to carry a gene for yellow skin.

If you cross two parents that carry a yellow skin gene then 1/4 of the offspring will have white skin and be purebred, 1/2 will carry the yellow skin gene and have white skin and 1/4 will be purebreed for yellow skin.

If you want to cull out the yellow skin gene do not use the parents for breeding or any of the chicks.

Tim

If you want to learn some chicken genetics go to :
http://home.earthlink.net/~100chickens/id5.html

Jean:
Some of my newly purchased birds have the \"grisled\" colored shanks.  Is that genetically considered slate?

If I keep any of these birds should I consider crossing them with birds that have excellent shank color and only keep offspring with good color to get rid of the \"grisled\" look?

What have you done with your birds like this?

Jean

Mike Gilbert:
Could you post a picture?   I\'m not sure what \"grisled\" actually looks like.

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