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    sport marans:

    Thank you for taking the time to explain NatJ, its a lot to think about. I should repeat the mating to see if I get similar results, but haven't yet. Will take some pics of the other chicks, they are mixed in colour, can only imagine there are lots of genes at play, for the hen is basically...
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    sport marans:

    As I understand it leg colour is sex-linked and yes yellow legs are recessive, but that would mean if the father of the chicks displayed yellow legs, so he had two copies of the yellow gene. Then his daughters will inherit their leg colour from their father, giving then yellow legs. Since I cant...
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    Karoo Homesteading flock

    how is your flock going? love the pic of elvis!!!
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    sport marans:

    Yes this could just be a BCM hen holding on to old semen, especially since the BCM's roosters did not perform like the white Leghorn's did. Problem is all my dominant white roosters, have yellow legs/shanks, so the chicks would most likely also have some degree of yellow legs. But for the sake...
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    sport marans:

    My Marans eggs are a 4, maybe, but still a lot darker than my hens eggs with dominant white, so no chance of mix up there. I think it's either dominant white rooster's long living sperm, or it could be possible that there is a co dominance between white and black. The hen could have one normal...
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    sport marans:

    They say the roosters sperm is viable inside a hen for up to six weeks, so I also at first just shrugged this of as it could be from an other rooster, but I hatched from her white chicks eight weeks after taking her away from dominant white roosters. So now I'm considering that all the orange...
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    sport marans:

    My question is, should recessive white give you pure white BCM chicks or white with black flecks like mine?
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    sport marans:

    The pure lavender long tail Araucana's and BCM's are marked with orange cable ties the chucky cockerel below looks like he is silver with baring on his head. a black one.
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    sport marans:

    The BCM roosters used.
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    sport marans:

    The same BCM hen as an adult.
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    sport marans:

    BCM chick with her penguin suite.
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    sport marans:

    I got a BCM hen that as a chick had the penguin suite, black body with white chest. Now that I have bred her to a dark BCM rooster, I'm getting white chicks with black flecks, almost like dominant white with black co dominance. Is this a "sport" too? any one else?
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