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Leakage. Recessive white (or some recessive whites?) can let a lot of color through. I've had black breasted reds with recessive white that looked like red pyles.

Thanks for sharing the pictures! I never thought of wheaten being the cause of it but that might make sense. This chick looks more partridge but maybe recessive wheaten is in there too? I have worked with e+ and eb a lot but have very little experience with wheaten. I have a lot of other dark...

Lavender affects pheomelanin but cream has no effect on eumelanin.

It has both a dark beak and light legs. I've never had a chick with that contrast before. Usually if a chick has both fibromelanotic and inhibitor of dermal melanin one of those genes will override the other. Either the chick has a light beak and legs and hides the fibromelanotic, or the...

Here's an odd chick that hatched the other day

Do you want to test mate your fibromelanotic birds to see which ones are homozygous for the trait? If so, the reason you would want to use slate or willow legged birds is because they have the wild type leg color that won't interfere with your test matings. Birds with light legs (white or...

What do you mean by "Fibro 1 or 2"? Did someone suggest that there are two different forms of fibromelanotic?

You guessed it right. I was just holding out to see if there would be more guesses. He’s about a six generation mix of everything under the sun. I’m breeding him to his full sister now to get the same phenotype without the crest and beard.

The recessive white from Silkies can allow a lot of red to leak through. I don’t have any pictures of my best males, some have had very strong red pyle color. Here are some that I could find:

Nope, not walnut.

It has a crest, but the crest has no impact on the comb.

Here's a challenge, what are the comb genetics of this bird?

Looking at the wattles and dewlap, I’d say P is present as well. Ryan