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Sorry to say it sounds like classic Mareks symptoms. As there is no cure the outcome is lmost likely death. I haven't had any cases until this year and it has been my older birds. There is a vaccine but only for day old chicks injected into the neck back. I did have one affect in the eye that...

I guess that point I'm trying to (un)clearly make, is that to look at a black colored chicken and make the decision that it's blackness is dominant is not necessarily true. BBS and Lavendar are not exclusive to Extended Black base hence Silver/Gold Birchen as well as the blue varieties of them...

One of the difficulties with black is that it can be produced on any of the five e alleles and can be produced by different combinations of black enhancers. Karen is correct in that the basic pigment of black is dominant, however, one also can have black as a recessive as with the Blue gene. In...

Every reference I have read including DNA analysis states that the mottle gene is recessive. This is regardless of color. The color of your pictured chick is what I'd expect from an E/E or Er/Er black mottle cross. However, depending on the melanizers present and the e alleles, as well as the...

Keep in mind that mottle is recessive and doesn't appear fully in the generation. Dave

On Calico breeding - regarding the whiteness in Calico- The Mottle gene comes in two different appearances; the normal white tipped feathers (needed for Millie Fleur) and the "hysterical" version which is overly white. The hysterical factor isn't well defined as far as I know, but is quite...