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I do see what you're talking about in her tail. 🤔 I don't have any personal experience with crossing Blues and Lavenders, so I'm honestly not sure on that.

I didn't see it before, so I think it must not have posted. Not sure if you were looking for opinions or not, but lavender dilutes gold to a pretty pale yellow color, so I don't think she's expressing lavender based on the gold showing in her neck and on her head. I'm not sure how it would...

This is merely my understanding of the subject, so take it with a grain of salt. Egg production is studied, but near as I can tell not down to the individual genes involved. There's a lot of variability in egg production level, which indicates that there are multiple genes that control it...

I don't believe so. Legbars, in my experience, are quite prolific layers, so at the very least I don't think they carry any genes for reduced production even if there was some kind of linkage there. Birds with fibro tend to be fancier breeds not bred for production, so any kind of connection...

It could be! Honestly, my best explanation so far is it's bobtail genetics being weird. 🤭 I really should get some Bobtails. I have visions of silkied Bobtails in my future 😍 But I also really want to focus on my silkied BBS and get them good and solid before I get too crazy with the side...

Interesting how that's not what you've said before when discussing this bird. But sure. I will keep believing what the facts are telling me. 🙂 As far as the cockerel goes, a pelvis injury does not explain the duck foot, though. Cull that before you really get it in your line, it's reportedly a...

But Malays of any kind also don't lay blue-shelled eggs. The trait hiding in a line for any amount of time is highly unlikely as it is a dominant trait. Coupled with him not really looking like a pure Malay (or weirdly being the only one you've hatched that has all this variation you describe...

What a pretty baby! 😍 Yes, as Troyer said, dun is a partial dominant like blue, so expresses if any copies are present. I can definitely see why you would think dun with that coloring, though. I see the resemblance! Remind me, what colors were the parents? You were saying possibly Bobtail...

Pretty baby! :love I know that recessive white can sometimes look very smoky like this at hatch. Any signs of wing feathers yet? Any color other than white in the wing feathers would rule that out.

I was just going to say that, yeah. That's a shame, that one is my preferred one! But, oh well, at least the others seem to be working.

I noticed that as well. 🙁 It's rather unfortunate, though technically still usable. Just less useful as a learning tool in my opinion.

Furness is melanized gold wheaten, not duckwing or partridge.

Don't take this the wrong way, but... Isn't Long one of your birds that was off-type for a Malay anyway? Wouldn't this kinda be more proof that he's not purebred after all?

Haha, I started with the OEGBs so I guess it skewed my perspective of khaki the opposite way! 🤭 When I first saw that Khaki Polish, I was like no way, that's dun, not khaki! It is a beautiful color, though. With the right lighting, you can definitely see a difference between the white/silver...

Weird. I do see a few birds that look almost solid white in Cackle's listing for them... 🤔 Playing around with the spangled pattern in the chicken calculator, it looks like the spangled pattern is genetically ER/ER Db/Db Ml/Ml Pg/Pg. A bird with most of those genes present but that is db+/db+...

Huh, that one looks like a leaky Paint rather than any kind of spangled. 🤔 Where did you get these birds?

The darker Khaki color apparently is fairly common in the Dun / Khaki Polish varieties, so if you search for White Crested Khaki Polish you can find a few pictures that show various khaki shades. This was a White Crested Khaki Polish at a show I went to: Compared to some of my Fawn (dun)...

Some people do refer to dun patterns as chocolate. I'm not sure why exactly, other than that the genes have a similar dilution effect on plumage. But, generally speaking, chocolate makes deep, dark browns and dun makes paler browns. Their inheritance is quite different as well. Dun is an allele...

Depending on other genes the bird has, Khaki can look almost indistinguishable from Dun. The Khakis I have owned and seen have varied from birds that look white with just a tint of brownishness to birds that were a pale brown almost identical to Dun, maybe a shade or two lighter or 'duller', if...

Agreed with Jacin, Ideal has no true Booted bantams, so they must be d'Uccles. Since appearance is what matters in poultry, not pedigree, I would think you could breed them and select for the more tall and leggy type over time to get what could be considered Booted bantams. 🙂