Lanae,
Please remember that when I say Wheaten I am primarily preferring to the genetics of ewh which is the base we need for APA Black Breasted Red. All kinds of genes can effect the depth of color making it either darker or lighter. If you look in your current standard at some of the color pix of the "Orientals" (Aseels, Malays) in the new APA Standard you will see that most of the lighter birds are called wheaten where the darker birds (still genetically wheaten) are referred to as Black Breasted Red. I don't trust artists renditions that much but the Cubalaya form of Black Breasted Red seems to be in a middle grounds between the two.
Your hen in the picture with the striping in her hackles COULD be pure wheaten (ewh/ewh) with maybe melantoic causing the striping? I have a hen the same color and Brian Reeder has seen the picture and thinks she is probably pure for ewh. Keeping track of the chick down color is most important if we want to get our Araucana chicks pure for wheaten genetics. Unless it is pure yellow at hatch with no striping/spotting there will be something else mixed in and messing with the color we are trying to achieve.
Does that make any sense?
Ann
Please remember that when I say Wheaten I am primarily preferring to the genetics of ewh which is the base we need for APA Black Breasted Red. All kinds of genes can effect the depth of color making it either darker or lighter. If you look in your current standard at some of the color pix of the "Orientals" (Aseels, Malays) in the new APA Standard you will see that most of the lighter birds are called wheaten where the darker birds (still genetically wheaten) are referred to as Black Breasted Red. I don't trust artists renditions that much but the Cubalaya form of Black Breasted Red seems to be in a middle grounds between the two.
Your hen in the picture with the striping in her hackles COULD be pure wheaten (ewh/ewh) with maybe melantoic causing the striping? I have a hen the same color and Brian Reeder has seen the picture and thinks she is probably pure for ewh. Keeping track of the chick down color is most important if we want to get our Araucana chicks pure for wheaten genetics. Unless it is pure yellow at hatch with no striping/spotting there will be something else mixed in and messing with the color we are trying to achieve.
Does that make any sense?
Ann
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