The unusual appearance of dark-footed cuckoo d’Anvers

[Amer]

The chances are the same about 1%. You can have B/B, Id/id+ and will not tell them apart from the B/B, Id/Id. Cuckoo or Barred Silkies have broken the B-Id Linkage already and show black skin, but the face may still be redish due to the Barring natural pigment inhibitor.

That makes sense.
I suppose the unusual 1 percent could show up with the cuckoo Silkies since the breeder improved them for years, but it may just be the dark legs.
If it’s so unlikely, I guess my boy probably doesn’t have the id gene. Actually, I know he doesn’t because his two brothers were exactly the same and his mother didn’t have it, so even if he did, it would only be one copy.
So I guess he’s just another example of epidermal melanin, despite being very even in color.

 

[nicalandia]

I guess my boy probably doesn’t have the id gene. Actually, I know he doesn’t because his two brothers were exactly the same and his mother didn’t have it

Only test mating would confirm that assumption.