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Red Mangrove
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The code was already there inside of the bird. Rhode Island Reds didn't magically get their red color, they got it from Malay ancestors and then a man specifically bred for that color he found in the Malay DNAPlenty of mutations were the result of accidents that were then brednby people because they liked the look
Pea combs are too useful and widespread to be an accident from inbreeding distorting DNA in my opinion, though to be fair I'm just a peasant and not a geneticist