Game hens, what are they?

[GotGame]

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Not a bad guess....better than what I have come up with. It wont effect anything if I DONT find out, just was really curious, and nica knows his genetics....

 

[nicalandia]

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Not a bad guess....better than what I have come up with. It wont effect anything if I DONT find out, just was really curious, and nica knows his genetics....

I believe cuba kid is on the money here, as Dun(I^D) shades can very a lot more than what Blue(Bl/bl) does with the presence/absence of emumelanin enhancers/diluters.., some Khaki(I^D/I^D) can be almost blue looking and some can be almost white...

 

[GotGame]

Thanks for the input guys....nica, do you have any pics of different shades of dun?

 

[nicalandia]

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Let me find them ok...

 

[Chris09]

Got Game,
Here is a good post on Dun, Dun splash (khaki)

http://www.chickencolours.com/Brownies & Khakis.pdf

Chris

 

[deerman]

Years ago saw ones that look alot like those my uncle breed minor blues with brown red . Think they are blues cross

 

[GotGame]

The pattern is indeed real similiar to lemon blue or brown red, but it is the actual body color that I am trying to understand.

 

[nicalandia]

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Homozygous Dun I^D/I^D can varry from a very light Chocolate color to almost white depending on melanizers

here afew pics

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Heterozygous Dun I^D/i+ can also very from shade, the nices Chocolate color I'v seen based on Dun comes from Polish, I don't know what genes are at play but to me they have the nices chocolate color coming from dun

 

[GotGame]

Very nice, thanks for the pics....

 

[Yellow House Farm]

Hmmm..in a blatant 30 second stealing of the thread (with apologies), taking advantage of all you OEG lovers. Does any one know of a breeder of SQ Spangled OEG large fowl?