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The Moonshiner said:
Some say it will while others say it won't. I'd heard breeding lavender back to black was how you worked to combat the shredder gene.
When I first got into isabels they were a mess. I got opinions both ways and mostly from experts that hadn't even dealt with it.
I just kind of went it alone. Breeding back to Browns seemed like a plausible idea and at the time a lot of them laid tinted eggs because they were still caring a few Brown egg genes. I figured worse case it would help with that so what the hell.
To me the Wing patch deal was linked to the duckwing pattern because I'd never seen it in other lavender Birds.
I back crossed as much as I could for several Generations. It seemed to work for me. I got rid of the wing patch issues and eventually it seemed like the shredder problems too.
It was said that it was linked closely to the lavender Gene so it followed it around. In my opinion it was linked but it could be separated and that's what seems to happen after I produce so many birds.
I seem to have them completely rid of it for a while but for some reason every now and again it comes back somewhat mostly in the tails. I only have lavender silver duckwing right now so if it ever gets bad again I'll just start over bringing back to Silver duckwing and try to eliminate it completely again.
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If it can be corrected, I may try to get a few Isabellas one of these days. I would love to have the lavender SDWs! I would have to get my hands on some SDW Leghorns and Isabellas first though.
 
KF0002 said:
If it can be corrected, I may try to get a few Isabellas one of these days. I would love to have the lavender SDWs! I would have to get my hands on some SDW Leghorns and Isabellas first though.
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I really think it can. The OEGB lavenders, lavender quail and other lavender patterns of good quality don't seem to have it either. My last set of lavender Ameraucana from Cackle didn't seem to have it either. From the Ameraucana Breeders they have been culling hard on those that presten the shredder gene.
 
Out of 24 eggs, 4 had completely detached air cells and I didn’t even include them in the pic. I have never had any luck getting eggs with completely detached air cells to develop. I went ahead and stuck them in a carton in the bottom of the Sportsman.
 
NagemTX said:
I really think it can. The OEGB lavenders, lavender quail and other lavender patterns of good quality don't seem to have it either. My last set of lavender Ameraucana from Cackle didn't seem to have it either. From the Ameraucana Breeders they have been culling hard on those that presten the shredder gene.
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I love the look of the Isabellas and the lavender SDW. They are lovely varieties and certainly worth putting forth the effort to improve the feather shredding and patchy issue.
 
KF0002 said:
I love the look of the Isabellas and the lavender SDW. They are lovely varieties and certainly worth putting forth the effort to improve the feather shredding and patchy issue.
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John Blehm I believe have made silver blue and silver lavender bantam Ameraucanas. He's one of the breeders that got Ameraucanas in the APA.

It might have been Russell Blair, I would have to go back and check.
 
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I ordered pink wingbands. I am growing bored of the usual blue, red, and green. 🌸

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