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As gorgeous, lovely and totally beautiful as he is, he isn't a Mottled. He needs to have white tips on his feather tips and this gorgeous and most handsome guy has shafting and streaking color. I see a lot of boys out there with streaking that win, which is something I think should not be shown.
He appears to have some splash in him but on the streaking you can see how the light color goes all the way down some of his feathers. In a lot of Mottled roosters the white does seem to streak all the way down the feathers and that is not what Mottleds are supposed to look like. However, roosters are harder to get good color on, while hens seem to be glorious. Some streaking is allowed but I haven't shown any of mine like that.
And again....I think he is 'da BOMB!
I love him! I have a splash mottled cockerel. I will try and get a pic of him. He has a couple of feathers with the coloring running down the shaft. Splashes can look so different from one another, just like the shade on a blue can vary. Breeding him like you are to solids, and you should also get a mottled pullet, test breed, test breed, test breed!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the compliment ! Test breeding is difficult ! When the girls were laying, the eggs I set weren't fertile VERY frustrating as these are young birds !! I wasn't sure if the infertility was due to Shadow's youth or their extremely heavily feathered behinds !! and then in between I had to deal with the girls going broody
I would expect if they look like they hatched out Mottled they may well be Mottled but of course, photos help. They may carry a gene for Mottled if he came from Mottled himself. He looks like a really awesome version of Mottled/splash. I have one or two of them but they are not nearly awesome looking as your handsome guy.
He seems to have great type, as well as your girls.
Can't wait to see the photos of the offspring.