Is white shanks considered a fault in the show ring?
If it is and your hen/pullet has NEVER had yellow shanks then obviously you were sold or you were given a bill of goods when you received this bird or her mamma and daddy.
I know a chicken breeder/peddler who sold 2,500 hatching eggs to a friend of mine.
The chicks from the breed that the breeder supposedly sold my friend should all come either yellow or white legged.
When the chicks began to hatch they were all GREEN legged or TERRAPIN legged but not a one of them showed either white or yellow legs. My friend called up the chicken breeder/peddler to complain. Without missing a beat the CHICKEN BREEDER/PEDDLER explained it like this.
"OM GOSH, I must have got the eggs mixed up and sent you the wrong batch of eggs. Because I promised Mr. Billy-Bob ____________________ (insert name of well known and respected BIG TIME game chicken man in the blank above) that I would never never never let any of his blood lines out of my hands, I will be at your place in 72 hours with 2,500 new hatching eggs and I will pick up all of those TERRAPIN legged chicks."
OH no you want!!! my friend replied!!! YOU AIN'T PULLING A FAST ON ON ME!!! I am keeping these chicks because they have to be good game chickens if you got them from Billy-Bob __________________" !!! (at this point insert for a second time the name of the well known and regarded game chicken man.
The point of this true story is that you gotta get up really early and eat your razor soup to the very last drop then lick the bowl clean to get anything over on chicken peddlers.