Hey mottled folks!
i am not breeding mottled but am getting a few thrown out of test breedings. I just wanted to ask if all mottleds get white primary feathers on their wings like the one below? This little pullet is 5 weeks old.
Well put. Yes two separate genes, with separate effects. Blue is incompletely dominant hence the fact that you get Blue, splash and black from these breedings. Self blue is a more apt description then lavender. lavender is the gene. Self blue means that the colour breeds true.
The phenotype or...
Sorry i should have been a bit more specific. He is a E/e^b split, from a partridge cockerel X black hen. Had no idea either had mottling.
Being split on the e locus means this boy has better feet and shanks that a pure EE bird, much brighter yellow, but there is yellow leaking into the hackle...
Hi all, i have recently discovered my partridge cockerel is split for mottled, and it seems so is the rest of my flock. i got this little fella from a cross to black to try and improve the type on my partridge,
and this girl from my two partridges. I havent seen many mottled partridge...