Definitely a challenge with the low egg count, but even poorly marked they please me. Got my birds from different hatcheries trying to get a wide enough gene pool for health, but wish I could find someone who's bred them a while. Haven't found any locally.
I definitely have to look at the feet tomorrow! 
I don't mean they are poorly marked. I mean they're poorly because they don't thrive, often, if they are inbred. Not easy to get really healthy, vigorous specimens. There must be good raisers of this breed somewhere, but I haven't found them.
I was referring to my thoughts on my own birds
. Not the best specimens but well loved anyhow.
That can certainly happen, but the pure white ones can have the same problems, as can any breed where there isn't a large gene pool. Sometimes Yokohamas are outcrossed to Sumatras to try to improve the problem, but then you have to breed back to the standard. There really is no easy solution until we get some unrelated imports.I was referring to my thoughts on my own birds
Agree they have health issues though. I read an article theorizing that at least part of the problem are the genes that create their pattern. No idea if that's been proved out or not though. Wish I knew enough to really do something to improve them.
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Phoen/ReederRedShGenetics.html
