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Thank you I have never seen this pattern before so I love it. It is unique to me but of course I am not that experienced but hope I can get them to produce in kind.
Thanks Connie I am very excited about the Whites.
VC you don't think the "mottled" will give me mottled but will show me the make up of colors that are in them?
Well if they are mixed blue or splash cuckoo, with single barring gene, you will get some unbarred hens that show the true background color under the barring. I suspect they are mixed with wheaten, which doesn't "darken up" as easily as pure Birchen or Extended Black based cuckoo or blue cuckoo. If the chicks started out white then they are probably silver wheaten based hybrids. If you hatch enough, the at some point the genes will match back up and you will get the pure wheaten, some of them with cuckoo pattern, some without. You could end up with some interesting combinations but the chances of a really good one are slim, unless you hatch a ton of chicks. Kind of like winning the lottery. You could get a silver blue wheaten or something cool like that. I'm curious if you get that patchy blue pattern without the barring.
Wheaten probably came from any golden cuckoo blood that's in the mix. You definitely have splash or blue in there too, and they look like they are silver.
Thank you I have never seen this pattern before so I love it. It is unique to me but of course I am not that experienced but hope I can get them to produce in kind.
Thanks Connie I am very excited about the Whites.
VC you don't think the "mottled" will give me mottled but will show me the make up of colors that are in them?
Well if they are mixed blue or splash cuckoo, with single barring gene, you will get some unbarred hens that show the true background color under the barring. I suspect they are mixed with wheaten, which doesn't "darken up" as easily as pure Birchen or Extended Black based cuckoo or blue cuckoo. If the chicks started out white then they are probably silver wheaten based hybrids. If you hatch enough, the at some point the genes will match back up and you will get the pure wheaten, some of them with cuckoo pattern, some without. You could end up with some interesting combinations but the chances of a really good one are slim, unless you hatch a ton of chicks. Kind of like winning the lottery. You could get a silver blue wheaten or something cool like that. I'm curious if you get that patchy blue pattern without the barring.
Wheaten probably came from any golden cuckoo blood that's in the mix. You definitely have splash or blue in there too, and they look like they are silver.
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