Yes, in this picture it looks like a slated one.Thank you. The head color part was what had me a bit hesitant. I don’t think I’ve seen a rusty black or rusty slate poult homozygous for the black base before, with such a white facial marking.
The tom I had her under was a lavender, he couldn’t have produced rusty blacks. I was using “slates” as a general term for the pen- since she was in the breeding pen for slates, but the tom in particular I’ve been breeding is a lavender.
The slate color may be the fault of my camera, or the lighting at the time. It looks fairly slate colored to me. I did end up hatching a rusty black though, so here’s a comparison to better show the same poult beside a black bird.View attachment 3793445
The only thing I really care about in the end is the white face- the fact it extends so far on the right poult means the poult is homozygous BB, right? Also meaning, since the left poult has a smaller area of facial whiteness, that poult is likely to be Bb?
I just want to make sure I’m remembering that part right.
The big white face mask ist totally normal for BB varieties.