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Right! Most likely, the second person simply used two gold laced birds, and added c/c to one of them. In this case, the offspring WOULD all be gold laced -- but carrying the recessive white.
I myself have two recessive white araucanas. One is hiding wheaten -- E(Wh) -- and the other is...
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Even if you KNOW that your bird is recessive white, you don't know what OTHER genes it has.
For instance, a recessive white bird may have the following genetics:
E/E co+/co+ db+/db+ pg+/pg+ ml+/ml+ Cha+/Cha+ mh+/mh+ di+/di+ lg+/lg+ cb+/cb+ s+/s+ b+/b+ Choc+/Choc+ i+/i+ bl+/bl+ Mo+/Mo+...
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As I mentioned earlier -- the problem here is that there is more than one way to get "white", and there are all sorts of genes that can be hiding under the white. The chicken calculator can only give you the results for one VERSION of white at a time -- so if you don't know the exact...
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don't believe everything that calculator tells you. I have reason to believe it's wrong in some of the crosses I tried and really did but got way different results.
The problem is not that the calculator is "wrong", but that there is often more than one way to create a given color. For...