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« on: December 31, 2013, 11:22:32 AM »
The buffs that I've seen thus far, the females are a lighter dull color and the males a lustrous golden orangish color. They are Very different male to female. But there may be lines available that produce different results like Mike said. If the buff is related to wheaten, then should it be a surprise that the male and female come in different colors/shades?
Some of the black colored birds with yellow legs (not AMs) are a simple example of a double mating application. The females seem to carry more melanizers and it's not often you get good colored birds from one mating. You can choose to breed a female or male line or double mate to have show birds of both sexes, but you have to carry twice as many birds in your breeding pens.
Ex. Lighter Black males with white undercover and clean yellow legs will help produce good black body color with yellow legged females. But the males produced from this mating are going to be too light in undercolor and possibly white feathers and will not be show birds.
Dark legged females with "right colored" males produce good dark colored males but most often the resulting females will have black legs, very little yellow maybe only on the bottom of the foot pads.
Some breeders will say that the standard needs to be modified to allow single mating. Some might say that over time you can attain the perfect color in both - nirvana.
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