A new arrival has been added to the flock. I had never seen a color mutation like this bird. Ginger is a cinnamon olive green coloration. She is beautiful and I would like to start breeding cinnamons into my flock. It will take a couple generations to see the cinnamon coloration in the chicks but it will be worth it. The cinnamon gere is sex-linked. This means the male passes on the gene. Females when bred to normal males will pass the gene on to their male chicks. The male chicks will appear...

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