Well I currently have mine in a colony setting due to lack of space (now) and a predator problem (rats). But I've gotten some interesting mutations that I sold to quaillady. In my pen are some whites, browns, goldens, cinnamons, tuxedos (both rosetta and dark range), and a few reds. I usually don't hatch them myself and haven't heard much feedback from others who have gotten them, but a few that I hatched last year were different. I ended up selling those to quaillady and she's trying to 'isolate' and expand on these characteristics. One of the ones I hatch last year looked like a white but instead of the brown markings this one had gold.
Then I had a few that were brown but had several white flight feathers when they first started getting their feathers.
These molted out almost completely, but not quite:
Other than these (and the occasional brown with a white 'bib' or white belly feathers) I've not noticed too many oddities. But like I said, I don't usually hatch them.
I assume that the first was a cross between a gold and a white and the second was a cross between a brown and a white. What's interesting about this is that gold is supposed to be dominant over brown and white and brown is supposed to be dominant over white. But when these were crossed (gold X white, brown X white) the white won out over the gold and the brown won out over the white, when in actuality both the gold and brown should have dominated the white causing a gold or brown bird with maybe a few white feathers.
Quaillady is coming, I sent her a message. She likes to sleep late though so it might be later
Then I had a few that were brown but had several white flight feathers when they first started getting their feathers.
These molted out almost completely, but not quite:
Other than these (and the occasional brown with a white 'bib' or white belly feathers) I've not noticed too many oddities. But like I said, I don't usually hatch them.
I assume that the first was a cross between a gold and a white and the second was a cross between a brown and a white. What's interesting about this is that gold is supposed to be dominant over brown and white and brown is supposed to be dominant over white. But when these were crossed (gold X white, brown X white) the white won out over the gold and the brown won out over the white, when in actuality both the gold and brown should have dominated the white causing a gold or brown bird with maybe a few white feathers.
Quaillady is coming, I sent her a message. She likes to sleep late though so it might be later
