She looks lovely, but she is not a cochin bantam unfortunately. the tail and wing carriage shows that.
cochins have soft rounded cushions, like this one.
May just be the blurry image though
Looks like a boy, stands like a boy. Hope your tests are correct! Yeah it is definitely a mottled at any case.
Here is one of my mottleds who is about the same age.
Agreed silver pencilled would be better if you are just making silver laced. Sorry about the confusion, here silver pencilled are called silver partridge.
That article was sigi's. She has some nice birds
A lot of people recommend using partridge or Columbian because those two at least carry one gene responsible for creating lacing.(Co for Columbian and Pg for partridge or pencilled)
The article you are referring to is probably by Sigi, she was using cuckoo, and was there was a big debate by a...
Your thoughts are correct, the components that are required for single lace are Pg Ml and Co. The f1 will give you poorly laced birds, breeding those back together should get you back to some birds with decent lacing. Getting the Pg and Ml pure again will give you the required lacing, as the f1s...
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Your first question is a lot more complex then you realise. Breeding white to black would depend on many things, which white are you talking about? There are the two base types of white dominant white i+ and recessive white I. Genes in poultry will often express in the f1 cross and not...