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Yes. I know I'm too chatty and can ramble. We compared notes a lot over there. But I was learning from the rambling, and gaining confidence. So to be told 'no one wants to read through all this crap' knocked the wind out of me, too.
Had I not rambled on this thread, BBB would not have given me a valuable piece of info, like about Ron possibly getting the lace gene into his millies.
BBB, thanks for the info on Ron and the possibility of lacing. I feel like I do when I get a puzzle piece clicked into place. Especially after seeing GypsyChic's all black birds. When I bred the project birds I only had the RT millies to breed from, and for both crossings to show the lacing really confused me.
By both crossing I mean MF over lav hens, and lav over mf hens. I had the 2 groups of chicks separate for a while to see if there were any obvious differences. My original goal for that was to see if I got better feather style from the mf roo versus the mf hens (who carries gene for feather quality?). There was no obvious difference in feather quality, though. All showed improvement (losing tattered almost silkie edges and going to a smoothly edged feather).
BBB, are you going to the OH Nationals?
If anyone on this thread is, I'd love to meet you all!!!!
Not been on here for a few days and wanted to catch up. I also wanted to share this pic with you Wegotchickens...interesting lacing on this lil roo. Is this the color (or similar) to the mahogany you spoke of earlier?? Just curious, he's from one of my project pens. Nice shape, interesting color, but also notice the severe lack in proper foot feathering
