| Key 4 : | Start Key to determine Male Genotype |
| Note: Black can be diluted to blue, lavender, chocolate, khaki or white. For now, ignore any all over (birdwide) barring effect! | |
| Does your male chicken have a well patterned breast, laced, barred, pencilled or spangled?
For now, ignore any all over (birdwide) barring effect! Also go here if his female relatives are typically patterned like this. | |
| go to next step ... Key for Patterns | |
| Does your male chicken have a black (or dilution thereof) breast and a duckwing, meaning a golden or silver wing triangle?
If no, go to next option. If yes, go here: | |
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| go to next step ... Key for male Duckwing, Partridge or Wheaten | |
| Does your male chicken have a black (or dilution thereof) breast and a crow wing, meaning a black (breastcolor) wing triangle?
If he is solid white go here as well. | |
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| go to next step ... Key for Extended black, Birchen and Melanized partridge | |
| Does your male chicken have a groundcolor breast, meaning gold or silver or maybe red, little to no (diluted) black pattern?
Not solid white with or without a few flecks. | |
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| go to next step ... Key for Columbian restriction | |
| Skip colorgenes... | |
| go to next step ... Key Exit color | |
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