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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    Thanks for clarifying! Yea I think the Red/Blue combo is very striking too with its contrast. We named the rooster & hen with that color combo Fire & Ice. Now that the rooster's shiny red saddle feathers are getting longer it almost looks like flames. BBS Silver & Gold duckwings would be very...
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    Ok thank you for explaining their colorings! Here's a better side picture of #2, that is considered Duckwing with the tip of his wing matching his hackle & saddle feathers correct? What color/pattern offspring might he produce? For #3, your 3rd picture looks very similar to mine. What type of...
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    Whiting True Blues are known for coming in any color/pattern so I'm not really worried about the coloring, I actually like the variety:) Yes true Ameraucanas are homozygous for the blue egg gene, I was meaning that I've found there to be alot of places/people who misleadingly refer to their...
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    Correct, they're similar to Easter Eggers where they can be any feather color but are homozygous for the blue egg gene which is what I thought was neat about them:) So does BBS & typical feather color genetics not even apply to them then?
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    Do you mind explaining what the leakage on them is? Like I said I'm new to understanding all the genetics behind coloring. I used that term in explaining the blue with red coloring because someone else had described the coloring as that, but I might have been using that term wrong. I do know...
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    So is BBS it's own genetic thing? Like just because a chicken is blue or black doesn't mean they have the BBS genetic makeup? Whiting True Blues come in any color/pattern, my sister & I bought from the same place & every one was a different color. I left her pick which ones she wanted & it just...
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    Chicken feather color genetics question

    I'm really interested in feather color genetics but have limited knowledge of it & would love to learn. I have Whiting True Blues that I'll be breeding & I have 3 roosters that I'm trying to decide on who to keep & who to cull based on which will give us the most variety of feather color in...
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