should i buy?

[nfrost]

I have a chance to buy 3 pea chick hens that are breed with a white male but show no white in there feathers at all, if i got them and breed them would the offspring have some white in there, or would they be a hidden gene thlype thing?

 

[nfrost]

I guess meaning would they look pure I.b.?

 

[Mmmatt13]

If you mate a white with a regular IB the offspring will all be split white, then if you bred the offspring back to a white, you'd get white and split white babies. At least, I think so..

 

[nfrost]

I don't want split to white I was just wondering if u can breed the white out some how

 

[Mmmatt13]

Split to white and split to pied looks like IB but with just white primary flight feathers instead of the orange color. To breed white out of a split white it would take a couple generations.

 

[DMFarm]

I have a chance to buy 3 pea chick hens that are breed with a white male but show no white in there feathers at all, if i got them and breed them would the offspring have some white in there, or would they be a hidden gene thlype thing?

nfrost
If the chicks show no white flight feathers they are not out of a white male. All chicks out of a white breed to blue will show white. Only chick split to pied only will show no white flight. As to breeding the white out of blue this can be done on the first breeding the offspring will be white, split to white and normal india blues.