I only have the one frizzle hen. I can confirm that she is Mo+/mo^j from the breeding I have done with her. Her mate is mo^j/mo^j and when mated to her he threw mostly mo^j pattern chicks, but since I did get this chick, and I know what the hen looked like as a chick, then I can infer that she...
Yup. Only chick hatched like this. Mottled Japanese parents. Dad hatched from a line that only throws mo^j/mo^j mom was phenotypically mo^j/mo^j. Other female that I got with her is genetically proven to be mo^j/mo. But that female was broody and none of her eggs were hatched this brood.
What do you have to say about this chick that came from two mottled parents? The majority of the chicks from this pairing looked like the Japanese mottled down. Both parents had japanese mottled down.
So if they determined that the mottling in d'Uccles is the same as the already established wildtype mottling, then why did they just 'decide' that it had to be something different? I would have supposed it to be the same as the wildtype mottling if that's what research determined.
Did they take...