Honestly I was hatching so many chicks and the leghorns are easy to sex young so I didnt get too deep into trying to autosex them.
It would be interesting to take notes and see. I'm gonna guess it would be unreliable but maybe possible with breeding towards it.
Seems a lot of my mottled chicks...
I'm not sure what I've posted of those.
The ones you found I've hatched from this last season and posted chick pics. They're just randomly mixed in with the other chicks that I post every hatch.
I have a second group that's a barred blue rooster that carries mottling over mottled hens. I have a...
I thought they wanted e+ barred mottled lavender.
Whatever they want you still have e+/E barred/non barred mottled/non mottled lavender/non lavender all in play.
For each gene they want or don't want they have to deal with its opposite. You can't deal with that many genes and get any one...
The 55s are mottled and barred on duckwing. Ive saw both silver and gold based.
There is nothing extra going on to lighten the males to almost white. Their appearance is because of the mottling and double dose of barring. Females only having one barring genes allows them to maintain more color...