done

[tate]

all done

 

[Msbear]

Wow. I never knew they exsisted. I'd be anxious to see how the pullets grew out. What effect do you think they'd have on mille? Could it add more white to these darker milles?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Are they standards or bantams? Are they really columbian- or columbian/splash? The picts are a little dark- but it might just be my computer.

 

[tate]

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if you look at the older bird you will see that there is some buff color that is why i used him on my LF MILLI PROJECT
i bred him to buff hens and f1s all had buff background and black tails no white showed will be breeding them to my LF mottledwhen they start laying

 

[Krys109uk]

i bred him to buff hens and f1s all had buff background and black tails no white showed

He looks 'split' for silver & gold. Is this the case, or is something else causing the silver effect?​

 

[tate]

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He looks 'split' for silver & gold. Is this the case, or is something else causing the silver effect?

must be the light he is white and buff

 

[Krys109uk]

must be the light he is white and buff

'Light' is silver, so he must be split. If enough chicks are hatched & all things being equal about half of his pullet offspring would be silver as they cannot be both.​

 

[tate]

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'Light' is silver, so he must be split. If enough chicks are hatched & all things being equal about half of his pullet offspring would be silver as they cannot be both.

light means sunlight

 

[Krys109uk]

light means sunlight

I'd never heard that before. Is that where they came up with the name 'light'?
Genetically, the colour often called 'light' (as in 'Light' Sussex, 'Light' Brahma etc.) is a silver columbian. using the sex linked silver mutation, on the Z chromosome. Silver columbians can be on wheaten or on brown. In the case if light Sussex they're on wheaten thus the light undercolour, in the case of light Brahma they are usually, but not always, on brown thus the grey undercolour. The same is true of the buff columbians which are, genetically, gold columbian.​

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I "think" tate meant to say it was the "lighting" (sunlight playing tricks on color) rather than light.