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Quote: No white leghorn in the bird. White leghorns are dominant white- the bird would be buff with white in the tail and hackles if it had a white leghorn as a parent . Tim

Quote: I do my own experimental crosses and I read and analyze research manuscripts from scientific journals. I am currently writing a book on chicken genetics. It is very different from the other books on the market. For example, one book on the market has a small paragraph on dominant white-...

Quote: The buff bird could have been hiding the blue, also I have Leghorn buff orp cross that the white barely covers the buff. If the father was a white leghorn, the blue area would be white. Buff birds ( esp. buff leghorns)often carry dominant white to get rid of any black that may show in...

Quote: The bird got the blue feathers because when a bird color with a genetically chocolate based pattern like BOs are bred to Black-based patterned birds like SL Sebrights, It causes what is called a Khaki-based Pattern. This looks an awful lot like blue. The male in the pictures is not...

Broody hens will accept chicks but older female birds may or may not tolerate a chick. It is not unusual for a hen to peck a chick. Tim

Quote: The father is not the silver sebright. The male would be silver. Tim

I am trying to figure out how the bird inherited the blue feathers. He has blue in his hackles, wings and tail. He had to get that from one of the parents. He has white skin like an orpington and a sebright. But the down color is all wrong for a birchen bird the down color looks like a wheaten...

Do you have any easter eggers that are blue? What kind of chickens do you have? Tim

Quote: If the father was a white leghorn- the bird would be white. Tim

Quote: No white leghorn in the bird. White leghorns are dominant white- the bird would be buff with white in the tail and hackles if it had a white leghorn as a parent . Tim