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Your guy is beautiful .I think he might end up being some kind of Silver. This is my Olive Egger
roo at that age and now.
He practically has inverted is colors when changing from juvenile feathers to adult ones. Only his tail remained dark and his shoulders remained white. Long John Silver looks to be a Silver Duckwing but their is a pale yellow cast on his neck feathers that doesn't show well in these photos so he may be a Lemon/Cream Duckwing. Only his offspring will tell me. Long John may also be penciled because of the black stripes in the centers of his hackles. He may be mottled as well but the pattern of white on his chest is more regular than most mottling I have seen and may be part of an incomplete lacing gene which could also could possibly give him this appearance. I have some of his eggs in the bator for he New Years Day Hatch. I can' wait to see what comes out. So it is possible that as light as your boy is right now he could look totally different in 3 months.
