Question About Mahogany

[nicalandia]

Funny you mention the self-white. I had some end-of-lay hens from an egg-farm once that were just that. I had thought them extended black dom white at first, but they bred as silver Colombian wheaten with dom white. I thought it strange that they were there at all, honestly, as various forms of rsl are used in the vast majority of egg-farms here.

Yes, mother nature showing us that she can produce any and all possible phenotype possibility.

The tangent and links on buff are again of interest; I had a line of buff orps way back when which had dom white, but I hadn't considered blue/splash.

Dominant white a black pigment diluter will also dilute gold a few shades, Splash(homozygous blue Bl/Bl) will also but not as strong.

Apologies for the confusion regarding Ginger; I had assumed we were discussing Db Ginger, with the Gr abbreviation used in the paper being an alternate or archaic form.

Hey don't worry about that, I like to investigate old papers on chicken genetics, when many color genes and phenotypes were a mystery. Now a days research done on chicken genetics are mostly done by big industries on how to extract the most out of the production type close lines, hardly any research paper done within the last 10 years is of use by the backyard breeders!