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Sounds like lavendar???

I will get a photo this evening!

Edited to say - seems more appropriate to put in the GGG thread!

the middle chick is wrong. it was: E^R, Pg, Co

here is an interesting one ER/e^b or e^Wh; I/i; s+. i often get blacks with a red spot somewhere this one is dominant white with the normal black spots associated with dominant white on ER plus the red spot:

here are a couple of my sebright crosses that hatched to day.

fairly normal sebright down, ER gold:



now this i thought was interesting, still ER gold:

What should be a bearded Silkie Silver Quail e^b/e^b S/- * S/S Co/Co Ml/Ml

black silkies can have black chick down without any white at all ( will make a good picture of that soon )

Here is a choco/bleu showgirl pullet :

E/E S/- (ou s+/-) Bl/bl+ choc/- Ml/Ml




And the chick down of a lavender cuckoo silkie ( heterozygote for cuckoo )should be : E/E S/S B/b+ lav/lav Ml/Ml




( sorry again , but my computer don't want to open the option to insert an image , so can someone change the links into pictures ? )

Any chick down photo's of e^b/e^b S/S ? Silver Partridge?

Chicks wich came out of a cross between a dark red mahony silkie rooster based on e^Wh and a gold pencilled silkie hen .



( Henk help !)

should be : e^b/e^Wh , s+/s+ ( s+/-) Db/db+ , Co/co+ (?) Pg/pg+ , Ml/ml+ , Mh/mh+ .

Red spash white "rs" Recessive. Two copies of this gene give a white bird with spashes of red and black. Chicks are white with a red head spot. This gene may be extinct now. It was first isolated in a line of Rhode Island Reds, but it was not maintained nor has it be re-identified.
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