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WallacetheKhakiCampbell
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Oh okay that’s really good to know. Honestly like you suggested earlier I don’t care if the color looks good at the start. I’m thinking I’ll try to just get the double italian celadon rooster and once I make more and have pure celadon I will focus on the color from there.Italian is funky, 2 Italians don’t always make a manchurian. Sometimes they’ll just be a bit less speckly than Italian. But keep crossing em and in a couple gens you’ll have some nice ones.
I bred my celadon Roos until I had produced 60+ celadon hens and 0 non celadons, before I confidently began selling them as pure celadons.
Manchurian to manchurian is not lethal. It makes all manchurians. I read recently the lethal gene was at the same place as the fawn gene, but it’s not the same, and most lines have bred it out. My Myshire snowies had several manchurian males and no hens, thru crossing back and forth, I’ve made more manchurian males but no hens. I’ve never read it being sex linked in any way, so I guess it’s bad luck, I’ve seen photos of manchurian hens.
Perfect! I was hoping it wasn’t.