Yes, they are champagne paints. Heavy dose of the off coloured hackles. I have several. Notice the spots? I have gotten regular paints from mine. They are not dun. Dun plus paint = dun spots, not dun background colouring. Here is a dun paint:
Yes; she was a cross to test the genetics and how dun mixes with the champagne paints. Unfortunately a horse stepped on her before I could do second generation test breeding with her
any suggestions on what I should breed them to? thanks
black silkie hens
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Silver gene birds will (I hypothesize) be more likely to produce regular paints with a white background.
Yup, its a conditioner...does a nice job. Top Paw makes it....it's a tiny bottle though.
are u saying blacks with silver leackage?
Silver gene birds will (I hypothesize) be more likely to produce regular paints with a white background.
are they better then breeding them to regular blacks?
An opposum?2 more boys learned to crow todayThat makes 4 out of 7 boys
Neighbors have no idea what's coming. I'm going to sell 3 of them in the fall. Oh- one boy crowing is a LF with a loud voice. There is a rooster crowing miles away, and they are all answering him. Also, had an opposum on the porch, eating catfood. I had to step over it, it didn't care. I touched his tail and he finally ran away.
