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All moderns should have red ear lobes and single combs. Skin and ear lobe colour are breed (not variety) characteristics. Some breeds have multiple comb types allowed, but moderns are not one; males must be dubbed by November of the year they hatch (although a bird too young for dubbing is...

Even without correct Pg/Ml, blues tend to have some darker edging. With lacing you get the proper andalusian blue lacing. How much about chicken genetics do you know? Genetics of Chickencolors and Basics is a good starting point.

Can you be a bit more specific about the lacing? Are you asking about breast lacing on birchen based varieties such as brown red, birchen, lemon blue, or about a truly laced variety? The birchen allele itself puts breast lacing on birchen based birds. For true lacing such as silver laced...

Yea! Moderns are fun. The girls are very sweet. So are some of the boys.

You would have to ask the breeder if his/her birds are lemon blues or plain blues. Slate is a descriptor of the shade of blue, not part of a variety (colour) name. And your chick is black, not blue. That comes from how the blue gene breeds, and is to be expected. If the breeder has lemons...

Quote: The male is older, but the girls are both pullets. They are really nice. Here are a couple more photos; yes, they are in a parrot cage...

They are almost identical; one is slightly taller, whihc is a good thing as one DGD pointed to the tall one and immediately said, "that one is mine," and the other DGD pointed to the shorter one and immediately said, "that one is mine." They were not together, so it worked out well that they...

Quote: Of course it is always hard to tell much from pictures but they don't look too bad, for older birds. As always with blues it is the evenness of the blue that is the toughest to get, and more important than the shade of blue Also the more you breed Blue to Blue the darker the blue gets...

I recently bought a trio of lemon blue moderns for my grandkids (one is being shy and on the perch above the photo: