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Awww...gotta love the babies.
No idea what brassy blue or Shamo are. What type of chicken will they be?
Awww...gotta love the babies.
No idea what brassy blue or Shamo are. What type of chicken will they be?
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Good lookin chicks you got there.
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Are you refering to the color Sport as an off or not anticipated color ??
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yes, the sport is an off color but is anticipated, anytime you breed a blue to a blue (except for self blue) you will get a Black bird, a Blue bird, and a Sport or splash. I am told us old english people are the only ones that call them sports, they are what everyone else calls splashes, basically it is a black that has been diluted twice, where a blue is a black that has only had one dilution gene added to it...but you take a sport and breed it to the black variety, say take a blue brassy sport hen like the one posted, and breed it to a straight brassy back cock and you will get all blue brassy backs. Andalusion blue is actually just the result of a dilution gene added to black....some people say sports bred to the parent variety is the best way to get good even colored blues, as long as the sports are as cleanly colored as that sport hen....
yes, the sport is an off color but is anticipated, anytime you breed a blue to a blue (except for self blue) you will get a Black bird, a Blue bird, and a Sport or splash. I am told us old english people are the only ones that call them sports, they are what everyone else calls splashes, basically it is a black that has been diluted twice, where a blue is a black that has only had one dilution gene added to it...but you take a sport and breed it to the black variety, say take a blue brassy sport hen like the one posted, and breed it to a straight brassy back cock and you will get all blue brassy backs. Andalusion blue is actually just the result of a dilution gene added to black....some people say sports bred to the parent variety is the best way to get good even colored blues, as long as the sports are as cleanly colored as that sport hen....
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