Day one whites still have the duckwing and barring characteristics while in fuz, they are just muted and harder to see...
do you have any photos of 3rd or 2nd generation recessive whites that have patterns? I've seen photos of patterns from split parents that were very faint - but not of anyting beyond that. Would love to see 'em.
I can play that game as well, do you have any photos of 2nd or 3rd generation with no patterns? Playing the speculative and hearsay 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' game gets us nowhere...
I was able to sex all my whites at hatch, no I don't have any pictures as it was not important, I sexed and banded them at hatch and confirmed my ability to sex as the banded birds matured...
What makes you believe that the pattern we see would magically disappear in future generations? Any white bird is going to be a double recessive from the start, the offspring of double recessive parents is not going to be any less recessive than the parents and the auto sexing trait is not going to magically disappear, it's simply muted, that is unless there is more than one gene involved in the color suppression... If one breeds from white parents that were easy to sex at hatch I see no reason the offspring from those parents should magically lose the trait, maybe you can explain why you believe this will happen? Remember they are sill genetically 'pure' CL, nothing has changed beyond forcing a double recessive suppression gene into the mix, their genetic auto sexing genes/traits are still there just muted and harder to see due to that double recessive white trait...
As I said initially, there appears to be A LOT of hearsay and unfounded speculation in the breeding of whites...
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