Am I The Only One with WHITE bantam Houdans? Updated with PICS!

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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This is very interesting. I have a white Polish hatch from an eggs that was labeled "buff laced Polish". I wonder if the same thing would apply?
Anyway, don't really want to hijack the thread, I would love to see someone answer with white houdan!

yeah, it would be interesting...are you still looking for creves? I have a trio that should be laying/breeding either late this year or early next...they are from very nice (show) bloodlines.

 

[becky3086]

Yes I am, did you contact me earlier in the year when they first started laying? Someone did and then I never heard back from them.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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It was probably me! LOL My original rooster was killed by one of my horses

luckily, I was able to hatch out two of 4 eggs that I'd previously put in to the fridge. And I saved the hen's next few eggs and hatched those as well. I now have another pair and the original hen, plus one that is unsexed (younger). The first pair was hatched a few months ago and should be laying by next spring.

 

[becky3086]

Cool, well not that you lost your rooster but that you were able to get two chick from the eggs in the fridge. Will be looking forward to hearing from you in the spring!

 

[blackclownfish16]

Your definitely the first person I've even heard of who has white equibling. I know Jim Parker had chocolate mottled 2 years ago and I will have blue mottled next spring.

Since you have one white bird for sure it should be relativly simple to develop.

All mottled houdan bantams are somewhat weak birds so without an outcross of some kind thats going to continue.

Anyway enough of my rambling

Good luck and I would for sure use the Polish club, it's crazy how many rare colors and crested breeds are lurking around.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Chocolate mottled? I bet those are pretty! Do you have any pics of your blue mottleds? Will you be selling eggs next year?

 

[tadkerson]

Buff laced polish carry dominant white. The dominant white gene is relatively ineffective at diluting red pigments so you get the buff on the bird. The lace on the feather, which is normally black, turns white with the addition of the dominant white gene. I would say your bird is white because of dominant white.

To get more white birds, find a good looking blue splashed white (splash) to cross with the white bird. I do not know if the white bird has one or two copies of the dominant white gene. I would have to see what the chicks and adult offspring look like to tell you what to do next. Dominant white can only effect black or blue on a bird, so divergent genotypes produce strange looking white birds.

Tim

 

[blackclownfish16]

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The chocolate mottled are amazing, he didn't have any for sale when I got my black mottled from him.

The blue mottleds are chicks now so I will post some pics as they grow up and feather out.

I might sell some eggs, it will depend on how many chicks I hatch myself.

 

[becky3086]

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Thank you, thank you. I have three nice splash roosters so hopefully it will be a hen but if not I have a splash hen as well though right now she is in with a blue rooster.

 

[becky3086]

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The chocolate mottled are amazing, he didn't have any for sale when I got my black mottled from him.

The blue mottleds are chicks now so I will post some pics as they grow up and feather out.

I might sell some eggs, it will depend on how many chicks I hatch myself.

Oh, I would love to see a blue mottled as well. How interesting! And how do you get a blue mottled?