@TheGeekySheep
What's happening with that hatch?
I've had one with vaulted skull. It's the result of breeding crested to crested and the offspring getting a crested gene from both parents ( homozygous). For SF, the vaulted skull can cause problems such has higher embryonic mortality ( chicks don't hatch ) or weak chicks at birth or chicks that are more prone to head injury. Other breeds that have vaulted skull as part of their "normal" characteristics, apparently don't have the problems with it that SF chicks do. Anyway, the one I had with it was a roo, perfectly healthy except that his crest was huge like a polish and couldn't see very well without clipping feathers. Most seem to consider this to be an undesirable trait in SF but if your chick is perfect in every other way and healthy, you can still use it for breeding if you breed it to only non crested partners. All the chicks would be crested but they would only carry one copy of the crested gene and you wouldn't get the vaulted skull in any of these offspring. Although it's not exactly a desirable trait, you can easily breed it out in one generation. Always breed crested to non crested to avoid this.
that is typical of wheaten pattern. they are very pale as chicks but can still show the black markings as adults... it's the hens who show the distinct differences between the varieties. the wheaten (eWh), partridge (eb) and wild type Ie+) roosters are identical.@TheGeekySheep
See the yellow in this photo:
He grew into this:
(22 wks.)
not always. first, it depends on the e locus, second depends on the modifying genes, like lavender, blue (splash), mahogany, silver, dilute, etc.
