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Quote: Don't get the point of your question... Sorry, My question is that if both parents do not show the leakage, how do I choose which parent to breed back to? The obvious answer is to breed to the parent that will reach my goal.

Quote: If both parents look non rusty? Do you just choose the one who most closely matches your ideal bird?

Quote: Ok, so let me see if I understand. You are saying that these birds ground color is most likely red, and that while normally this doesn't cause any problems, when a bird with different or less melanizers, the red leaks out. So in this case the only way to breed it out of a line is to...

Hopefully someone will see this and can help shine some light on it.

Ok...let's go back a little bit. The birds are all supposed to be blue/black/splash lineage. How would the melanizers be lost? There were English orps crossed with American orps. Neither of the parents showed the leakage.

Quote: Ok, so what you are saying is that you don't believe that the silver has anything to do with the leakage. If what you are saying is true, then the reason for the leakage only in the males is due to the fact that they have stronger color characteristics. I know that this is not the...

Black, blue, and splash.

Ok, this is about the Orps with the red leakage. I am NOT wanting to upset anyone, and I don't want to start a fight. I just want to better understand what is happening so that I can work with it for a project and to eliminate it in my BBS flock. From what I understand Orps are extended...