Those are indeed spangled.....but spangled on a different allele. They appear to be the birchen allele (in otherwords, brownred spangles. Which is the direction you want to head if you want mottled as the blacks are modified brown reds after all.
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Those are indeed spangled.....but spangled on a different allele. They appear to be the birchen allele (in otherwords, brownred spangles. Which is the direction you want to head if you want mottled as the blacks are modified brown reds after all.
This bird has spangling and dominant white. In D'Uccles and I believe Old English Game Bantams they call this "Gold Neck". The amount of white in the neck does make me wonder if this bird is also showing the columbian gene as well.
My Welp Hatchery BBR Cubalaya chicks at 28 days old.
Once again, these two chicks show the different colors that the other chicks are. I guess they could be male and female. It's hard to get a good picture of their tails, but they do look like they are lobster tail like (wide and droopy). All of the chicks seem strong and are growing fast.
jungle,
Though I can tell you all about down coloration in Cubalayas and the like; I really don't give chicks a second look except for obvious deformities like crossed beaks and crooked toes.
Nice chicks except for the high tailed one. #3 in the back on the right is a nice enough chick just has a high tail. I've had chicks with tails like that at that age and usually by the time they reached 4 months the tails were down where they should be, but sometimes they just don't go down. I select for the ones that hold their tails below horizontal at hatch thru adulthood. Picture #1 is a cockerel, #2 is a pullet and #3 and #4 look like cockerel and pullet pictures.