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Breeding / Re: Blacks based on silver

« on: September 22, 2016, 12:20:27 PM »

  If I remember correctly silver based blacks will have slate shanks and gold based blacks will have black shanks.

Thank you for your response Paul! You are always so helpful.

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Breeding / Re: Blacks based on silver

« on: September 22, 2016, 12:18:59 PM »

Lindsay,  I don't have blacks but they are probably the most popular color so you should be able to find some close by.  I am not sure if most people will know for certain if they have complete silver based line.  Most breeding blacks prefer Gold based lines.  Though some blue lines are supposedly based silver because it offers advantages for better blue color.  So those breeders might use a black bird from their Blue/Blue crosses to reinforce their matings.  But it still allows them to stay inside a silver based line.    I am curious, what would you be using this bird to accomplish?

Hi Don,

Thank you so much for your response. I am looking for blacks based on silver to use in my self blue/lavender pens. I have been doing a lot of research on the lavender color and the genetics behind it, particularly in regard to leakage. After speaking with a few breeders that have been working with the lavender color for several years, I have been encouraged to find blacks based on silver to use in those pens, as it is suspected that the straw colored (red) leakage that occurs in self blues/lavenders may be from using gold based black birds. Anyway, most of my research is hypothetical at this point, and based on the experience of others, but I'd like to put the hypothesis to work, and test it.

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Breeding / Blacks based on silver

« on: September 22, 2016, 12:45:52 AM »

Hi everyone,

I am in search of blacks that are based on silver. Can anyone help me? Thanks for your time.