That's all interesting to read there. I have to admit though, I havent had any cases or seen any cases of mottled birds being dominate. Not saying it's not possible in some lines. But that's a totally new one on me. I've made it on F 2 back crosses, and splits to mottled, but never as an F1 cross to a totally non mottled bird. From what I've seen, that only comes when a birds carried mo and you just didnt know it.
I could be totally off my rocker here, but that's always been my understanding of it.
These will be my first mottled in any longtail. But I've bred the heck out of it into different d'anver colors over the years. Now a lot of the times, I do get faint tipping on the F1 birds after a mottled cross. Usually some wing tips and faint over all body tipping. If you know what they are, you'd see it , otherwise you about wouldnt even notice it.
This was true in both my, blue, dun, and lavender mottled project breeding. About 50% of the split F1's showed these faint markings, the others were just solids.
These are some of my duns that I have been using to make my dun mottled, you would know it at all without knowing her genetics and breedsing, but boy she makes some pretty dun mottled when I breed her to my black mottleds
Dont have a good clear pic of one showing the faint pattern, but if you look at the bird behind the main hens butt, you can see some faint tipping on the shoulder area of her. It's most apparent in the wing tips though, just dont have a clear shot of it on one
I could be totally off my rocker here, but that's always been my understanding of it.
These will be my first mottled in any longtail. But I've bred the heck out of it into different d'anver colors over the years. Now a lot of the times, I do get faint tipping on the F1 birds after a mottled cross. Usually some wing tips and faint over all body tipping. If you know what they are, you'd see it , otherwise you about wouldnt even notice it.
This was true in both my, blue, dun, and lavender mottled project breeding. About 50% of the split F1's showed these faint markings, the others were just solids.
These are some of my duns that I have been using to make my dun mottled, you would know it at all without knowing her genetics and breedsing, but boy she makes some pretty dun mottled when I breed her to my black mottleds
Dont have a good clear pic of one showing the faint pattern, but if you look at the bird behind the main hens butt, you can see some faint tipping on the shoulder area of her. It's most apparent in the wing tips though, just dont have a clear shot of it on one
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