Egg color is awesome. I posted a pic in top post. The big hurdle we are working on right now is leg color. With the mottling gene comes mottled legs which are not standard. Some have said it's not possible to correct but we have a little black mottled hen here with solid slate legs so yes it is possible just have to hatch hatch hatch and then keep the best birds to move forward with. There are a few other little things that we have been working on slowly like type and color on the blue mottleds but the biggest hurdle I think will be the legs. The original project was started so long ago that there is no longer any red leakage in these birds. John Blehm and Paul Smith bloodlines have been used early on in the project.
Mottled carrier maybe? Most of mine show mottling by point of lay at least a few feathers anyway. We introduced solid AM's to the mottled line to improve them and give more genetics so we didn't run into close inbreeding that would create deformed chicks. by doing so though we had a lot of split to mottled that was then taken back to mottled. I definitely see substantially more mottling after first molt but I've never had one of the splits turn out to be mottled once it molted. Be careful with the blue mottled. We were breeding blue to blue and getting splash mottled but it was very difficult to tell if the splash birds were mottled or split to mottled. We fazed out splash by only using black roosters.
