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[sdm111]

Think ima try the cornmeal ( already have ) and if that doesn't work it's on to the D.E thanks for the advice

 

[JShubin]

This pullet a lighter variant associated with linebreeding back to Hen A. As chick such birds do not stand out and males are much harder to discern other than they are "White Hackle-ish". This condition appears recessive with test matings being made now to confirm and for closer scrutiny of chicks and juveniles. The same allele appears important in promoting the Hen B phenotype where that female is likely to be heterozygous.

Image below enables comparison of same pullet to a closer to wild-type half-sister (right) by another sire that does not appear to carry light colored allele. Second pullet is also a product of linebreeding. Photograph not best but coloration difference most obvious in it is the salmon colored breast of bird on right is largely lacking on the variant.

 

[JShubin]

 

[centrarchid]

Yes! That's it. Do you know anything of that pullet's / hen's background. I am trying to find the name for the phenotype. I had some folks call it Wheaton which does not look like any version of Wheaton I recall.

 

[centrarchid]

Pullet bellow is wild-type except she carries a gene that makes for barring on her secondaries. It is same gene that makes for the dirty-hatch look. Such hen also run a little darker than wild-type. Her back to her father yields about 1 in 4 that are essentially all brown except for black tail.

Light colored pullet also carries same gene. Some of her half brothers are also brown-breasted brown red except coloration is much lighter. Bars can just barely be made out on lower left wing.

Darn coon just tried to come up into yard. Dogs got into it but bugger got down into half buried junk pile. I could tell it was a coon by the racket it made as barreled into safety. Scoob does a number on them when he catches them in the open. Odds are that coon will avoid coming this far up hill until persimmons get ripe then it will likely risk the trip again.

 

[manny5412]

Thought I'd subscribe to this thread by showing off my brood cock, a Sid Taylor...

 

[centrarchid]

Got any hens to go with him?

 

[manny5412]

Got any hens to go with him?

2 warhorse hens.

 

[centrarchid]

Do they hatch out as black? I am looking for black hens to serve as broodies. With hens / pullets that produce only black chicks even when outcrossed to mine, I can spot when I slip up in allowing wrong egg being incubated. Currently I have to keep hens penned and mark eggs which requires too much thinking. Black hens I used last go did not go reliably broody when needed.

 

[manny5412]

The offspring for these hens and the rooster should be a dark red (roosters) and i believe the hens might and should be black