Mutated BCM????

[countrylife]

I not sure what the proper phrasing is. BCM parents, off spring white. What do you know about this????

 

[phasianidae]

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Each of the parents must have one copy of recessive white.

 

[Bravo]

Are they newly hatched chicks that are yellow or are they mature adults that are white? If it is the latter I would say that you have some wheaten genes in your breeding stock

 

[hallerlake]

A silver marans possibly?

http://www.artandverse.com/marans.html

 

[RAREROO]

Agreed, How old are the chicks and are they actually feathering out White ? Recessive Wheaten is the most common sport that popps out of breeding BCMs and they look white as chicks. But if is possible to have recessive White Sports popping out too.

If Wheaten then each parent would have one Wheaten gene and of White then each parent would have one recessive white gene.

 

[CHICKENBOY 1]

hey i have a wight copper maran hen as i call her so no not wierd in my book

 

[ChickenPox]

Bravo - I LOVE your avatar!

Sorry for the OT, carry on!

 

[countrylife]

Hey
Sorry it took so long to return to this.
The chicks were born a silvery yellowish white

Matured to solid white, lays a very dark egg.
I read somewhere (should have bookmarked it) of someone calling these a mutation and that they will normally throw regular Black Copper Chicks???
I have 1 that I know for certain in the bator now, so looking forward to seeing what hatches, probably have more but I can't tell her eggs from the others.

 

[CANDLE98]

OOH how cool! I love experiments!

 

[Illia]

You sure you don't have any Blue Coppers in your parent flock?