Giant Silkie Project.

[ColtHandorf]

Would a guard Dog prevent that?

Not with an unfenced property and a four-lane highway with a posted speed limit of 75 mph.

 

[NatJ]

Recessive Chocolate (behaves like Lavender) is very common in the US in some breeds (see above). Dun (Platinum/Khaki) which behaves like the Andalusian Blue gene is very, very rare in the US.

Is Dun the same gene that causes the color called Fawn?

Ideal Poultry has had that in Old English Game Bantams for some years now:
https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1587/106
color "Fawn Silver Duckwing"

I don't know what other hatcheries may have what varieties available, but I've kept an eye on those in case I ever want to play with that gene.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I believe that fawn is synonymous with dun. But I've never personally worked with it. And I'm pretty sure it's dun with some other stuff. Not just straight dun. Usually.

 

[nicalandia]

Is Dun the same gene that causes the color called Fawn?

It's the same diluter.

Fawn is basically a wild type bird(either black breasted red or Silver Duckwing) dilute by I^D, two copies are called Sports. So only the heterozygous are shown.


Silver Fawn Sport.(nearly white due to Silver and Homozygous Dun)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Okay, breeding 007 to Blue Wheaten Malay should produce me some Fawn/Dun offspring, & some Khaki/Platinum offspring.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Updated pictures of Floof.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Updated pictures of Floof.
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He's so beautiful!

 

[MysteryChicken]

He's so beautiful!

Thanks.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Thanks.

I had forgotten how squishy rooster faces are.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I had forgotten how squishy rooster faces are.

That's the first time I heard that one.