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[Goose and Fig]

I actually had a thread about leg color and mottling a few weeks back:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7713483

I have a few of those lavs with the mottling gene and I have been trying to bring it out in the splits but am having a tough time getting it to "stick". I remember when people first starting getting chicks from Hinkjc's early lavs and there was mottling popping up here and there. I don't know why more people didn't make a go of it

CelticOaks: I had good luck with eggs from Wildhorsefarm out of NC on ebay. They seem to get good reviews, but I don't know if they've been working with splits to improve or not.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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the best Lav project would be wilds of pa hinkjc mountain. they have worked longer than any other.

 

[lildinkem]

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IF your wanting a new variety for a Marans project, I will be making Silver Crele Marans when my Silver Duckwing girls come of laying age. I got the thumbs up from the best geneticist I know Dan H. He says these Silver Duckwing girls when taken to my new to me Dick Dickerson Cuckoo cockerel will make Silver Creles. MAYBE not the type of Crele many would like. But still a cool looking offspring will be expected. I just joined the onine Yahoo group for Marans Chicken Club to thank Dick for the free Cuckoo cockerel.
I think many here can invision this project from these 2 pics.
Dick Dickerson's cuckoo I was given for "FREE"!

I have around 5 or 6 of these Silver Duckwing pullets for the project I made from scratch. I know how to make them. And NO ONE can repeat this breeding cause they have BUSTOFF blood. That would be like picking 100 winners in a row at the horse track. Oh and just one hint, there is Marans blood in these Duckwings.

 

[rarely bored]

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I did give these birds access to scratch from a young age up until 2 or 3 weeks ago, when I realized they are BIG birds and needed more protein. They are currently on a 18% all flock feed.

Jim, do you know how long it will take to flush the yellow pigment out of the birds system?

Jeremy, you have your management techniques down and your birds are lovely. But, if your neighbor bought some of your chicks and within 4 weeks they had yellow legs would you tell them to cull, or would you take into account how the birds are fed? lol, ship me some chicks and we can find out!

Next year I plan to grow blue corn to feed to the chickens... will that make yellow skinned chickens green?

Thanks for the education!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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I did give these birds access to scratch from a young age up until 2 or 3 weeks ago, when I realized they are BIG birds and needed more protein. They are currently on a 18% all flock feed.

Jim, do you know how long it will take to flush the yellow pigment out of the birds system?

Jeremy, you have your management techniques down and your birds are lovely. But, if your neighbor bought some of your chicks and within 4 weeks they had yellow legs would you tell them to cull, or would you take into account how the birds are fed? lol, ship me some chicks and we can find out!

Next year I plan to grow blue corn to feed to the chickens... will that make yellow skinned chickens green?

Thanks for the education!

And if you feed the red corn it may turn them orange!

As for how long to get the yellow corn pigment out, that varies on the situation. Check your feed bag tag for ingredients. If the first ingredient is corn or grain products, you are still feeding a corn based feed.

 

[jeremy]

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Well I wouldn't tell them what to do, I would urge them though in this hypothetical situation to not use the birds for breeding or showing because of the fault. If they planned on keeping the birds as pretty layers then there would be no reason to cull. Either way I would also refund them whatever they paid for the birds.

What I would then do is start a single pairing breeding system to figure out what birds were carrying the unwanted yellow color. It would take probably years and I would have to cull ruthlessly but it is something that would have to be done. During that time period I would not sell anything to absolutely anyone until I was sure I had rid my line of the fault, as any responsible breeder should, IMO.

I'm just happy that it's not a fault I have to deal with!

 

[OSUman]

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Well I wouldn't tell them what to do, I would urge them though in this hypothetical situation to not use the birds for breeding or showing because of the fault. If they planned on keeping the birds as pretty layers then there would be no reason to cull. Either way I would also refund them whatever they paid for the birds.

What I would then do is start a single pairing breeding system to figure out what birds were carrying the unwanted yellow color. It would take probably years and I would have to cull ruthlessly but it is something that would have to be done. During that time period I would not sell anything to absolutely anyone until I was sure I had rid my line of the fault, as any responsible breeder should, IMO.

I'm just happy that it's not a fault I have to deal with!

It would just take one generation to see if they are carrying yellow legs, if you cross a white legged bird with a yellow legged bird and you get any yellow legged offspring then the white legged bird carries the yellow legged gene

 

[aveca]

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I think people get scared of it..just keep working it out its just part of the development.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

 

[lildinkem]

A guy I talked to at Crossroads said PINK is not a problem. And it looks like a PINK color not a YELLOW.