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There is an old thread on here, I can't find it, where the genotype of a very even light blue bird (Cochin?) was in question. A lot of very educated breeders couldn't agree on whether it was blue or lavender. Test matings to a black bird produced 26 black chicks. Although some argued...
I have read somewhere (on here) that self-blue is not nesessarily the lavender gene. In some breeds, a blue without lacing or darker areas is considered self-blue. Which makes sense: in rabbits, a self- color is any monochromatic color, without spots or ticking. In this case, self-blue refers...