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[centrarchid]

What is relationship between buttermilk and the other greys? Does buttermilk mean Wheaton also involved?

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

The bright yellow one will probably be a silver grey and the darker ones hatch grey (golden grey)

Oh great, I only got ONE silver grey...I hope not! LOL! But I think your right, the feathers coming in, are grey and black on the yellow chick, and brown on the three dark chicks. From the picture in the ad, it showed a light grey hen with salmon chest, and the rooster was black and white. Which is what I was hoping I was going to get. Egg prices seem to have sky rocketed so I'm not sure I'm going to pick up a new batch quite as cheap!

 

[sdm111]

What is relationship between buttermilk and the other greys?  Does buttermilk mean Wheaton also involved?

A dark grey hen can throw buttermilk which is red chested and hackles instead of Wheaton brown and tan. If u look it up Harold brown greys produce both dark and buttermilk hens

 

[sdm111]

When I get home I'll take a pic of a buttermilk brood hen and u can see the difference from a Wheaton

 

[centrarchid]

The linked below looks like what I imagine you call buttermilk.

http://www.freewebs.com/fowlafoot/photos/Broodstock/HBGreyHen.jpg

 

[sdm111]

Buttermilk chest feathers are red with tan lacing and the same for hackles that's Wheaton

 

[sdm111]

grey chicks from last yr. hatched by miner hen see how dark these are

 

[sdm111]

striped ones are ruble hatch from a few weeks see how light

 

[JShubin]

pretty amazing what a cell phone camera can do now.

 

[sdm111]

Wow that's like right there