Here he is. He's more blue/gray in tone in reality, but my phone made him look blue/brown.Today I slaughtered my first roosters from the Smoky brood. They were 90 days old and weighed around 1450 grams when fasting.
I inspected the roosters that appeared white to me and found smoky-colored feathers on all of them. No black or wild-colored ones. But how can it be that I get dominant white animals again from I^S I^S? It may be that I have two different Smokys. Let's say I^S1 and I^S2. If both alleles are mated, a smoky animal will be born, but also an e+ or Ee. If both, I^S1 and I^S2, complement each other, an I will come again?
It is also surprising why all the wild or black-colored chicks are piebald. My first brood with the original Bress rooster has hatched. All the chicks are white, some with spots in their down. The silver rooster now has 4 white chicks and one black-piebald chick with new hens. One hen is Ii and so the black chick is understandable. All piebalds show smoky color in the white areas. Solid whites are more or less smoky and predominantly white. Some have a smoky tail and a white body with red inclusions.View attachment 4029118
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