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chickenlover22345
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Hmm... This is interesting. @MysteryChickenThe solid-color OEGBs (except White and I believe Buff) and birchen-based OEGBs do have slate shanks. The duckwing variants, wheaten variants, and some other random colors like Barred (likely because the barring gene makes it hard to get a good slate color in the shanks) all should have white shanks in the U.S. Looking through my ABA standard, it looks like the number of white-shanked varieties is just a tiny bit ahead of the slate-shanked varieties, but they're just about equal.
Yes, your cockerel has the wrong shank color for an OEGB. If he's from TSC, however, he could just be a Dutch bantam instead of an OEGB. One of the hatcheries TSC frequently orders through does carry Dutch bantams and they're pretty easily confused with OEGBs due to a lot of intermixing of the two breeds in hatchery lines of Dutch bantams. But Dutch are supposed to have slate legs, whereas Black Breasted Red OEGBs shouldn't.