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I posted this at time there were only post 4&5 they were questioning that the roo was even paint since he has leakage, now there is more uproar regarding paint in general.
LOL don't you just love it? At this point in time there are more questions than answers regarding paint and now there's a brohaha going on about what constitutes paint and what can or can not be bred to it.
In a nutshell, I don't think it matters what color we use. I've bred paint to black and paint to white. Out of both breedings I got other colors along with the paint. So, until there is more understanding on how it works they can wear themselves out arguing over it.
The gist of the uproar from what I can see was that the pics of the bird do not look like what the world is calling paint. Yes you can have two colors on the same bird, no one on that thread said differently. The questions being raised where that the bird appeared to be more splash than paint. Also the other question at hand is what is being done with those solid chicks from paint breeding. Are they being used in a paint program, or are they being used in a standard color breeding. If they are like other animals in the passing of color genetics. In the following generations will we see off coloring if they are used in a standard color program. ie black body spots in lets say buff, or pigment holes in others. That was a conversation that took place by a few silkie breeders at a recent National Show. I guess the question is, by breeding paint and taking those "solid" offspring, mixing them into more solid colors, will there be a backlash in the future taking the standard colors in a direction that would need a few generations to get back to where they are now?