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Oh boy now the fun begins. Hatch hatch hatch. Keep us updated.

Yes. Yes it is. 🤣 that's the thread I went to and saw genetic breakdown for spangling and died a little on the inside.

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.

Good call. That was actually mentioned on the genetics page I posted.

There is a pic of a black crested buff on feathersite as well. Again most likely created with something like a Vorwerk, which is the columbian pattern as well. Spangling is outside of my knowledge base on genetics, never dealt with it.

Well they do look spangled and I missed that. If they used silver spangled spitzhauben in the cross, that was not the right thing to do. 🙄 The proper breeding is a columbian pattern like Lakenvelder. That spangling is 😐

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...

Charcoal/dark grey. Never cull one of those until you see what it grows out to be. Grey/silver can be good too but my best grow outs started out looking anything but white. And looked awful until they moulted into adult plumage lol. The lighter colored chicks tended over time to moult into too...

I swear I am not trying to hijack your post. This post you made starts bringing it all back, as far as what I was taught to look for and expect. I remember seeing my first chicks with the blackish grey coloring and being taken aback (before I understood how the silver gene behaves in this mix)...

The story of them getting into the standard, as best as I can remember, was basically one person obtaining a lot of them and dispersing enough to get enough people to show them and get them approved. It just seemed to me to be not a huge effort to actually breed them to type but a rush job, so...

Aha. https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Polish/BRKPolishBanty.html The pictures on Feathersite under polish bantams have some very good examples of what people used to have. The dutch bantam pullet is about the best example I have ever seen. As you can see, it is virtually impossible to...

Oh man, this brings back memories. Not all of them good lol. I've forgotten most of the genetics that I knew 20 years ago. It seems every few years there is renewed interest in this breed. I am old enough to remember when Clark Kidder got them into the standard. It should not have happened...