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WhiteTreeOfGondor
"Even the very wise cannot see all ends.” -Gandalf
That's interesting, thanks! I actually bought her as a Cayuga from a farm, but her size and walk look more like a Runner and I think she's a mix, so she could have any surprising genes.I think that's it then - she's probably not actually dusky and the white is sort of her 'bib', but it's just not a well-patterned bib. If she had it at four months old, she must have feathered in with it, I would think.
White can come in on solid birds as they age, but it takes until their first serious molt at after a year old to start coming in, often longer than that. Older cayugas can end up turning almost all white.