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I'll do that.I would pick nicalandia's brain if i where you. Just to see if you have the columbia restriction or not.
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I'll do that.I would pick nicalandia's brain if i where you. Just to see if you have the columbia restriction or not.
Here's some really useful info:
Gives a bit of the story on how the originals were created. As I suspected silver laced is in there. And Lakenvelder. I would think an acceptable backcross would be to any silver laced (non bearded)) you could find with poor lacing and more dark in the crests. Indeed from your pictures it sure looks like the Ideal stock has silver laced in the parentage. Good luck on your adventures.
Those forward-facing crests definitely hint at spitzhauben bloodGood find. It makes sense silver laced and lakenvelders were used; sounds like a perfect match, even if it’d take a few generations for proper coloring.
I agree that a proper backcross would probably need to be a silver laced; but I’ve never actually seen a non-bearded silver laced- not that they don’t exist, mind you, just that I’ve never seen them advertised anywhere- and a general concern i‘d have about a silver polish with less than ideal markings is they’d also have poor body type. That‘ll be something to have to really search for.
Whenever I look at my own birds, I somewhat see them as looking more spangled. I’m not entirely familiar with that pattern, but a lot of my birds have heavy breast markings, hackle markings, and a few have their tail feathers tipped in black. Not that this is good, or I’m confident in my own analysis, just a note on what I see. View attachment 3556605View attachment 3556596View attachment 3556597
I agree with that. Also my Spitzhauben that makes me think they used polish some where down the line.Those forward-facing crests definitely hint at spitzhauben blood
I'll do that.
Two basic points:Great now you have me researching spangling and it seems to be a mish mash of genes and now I am lying down with a cold rag over my head.
I agree entirely. The shorter, taller crests made me suspect they were mixed when i first got them, and the coloring has always suggested such an ancestry.Those forward-facing crests definitely hint at spitzhauben blood
I believe, but correct me if I’m wrong, that columbia just turns spangling into lacing, granted all the necessary genes are in homozygous form.Great now you have me researching spangling and it seems to be a mish mash of genes and now I am lying down with a cold rag over my head.
Would columbian restrictor cover it up?
Agree you need a genetics guru on here.