Gardienne Wings
Cameo, Cameo BS, Opal & Opal BlackShoulder
Cameo
Black Shoulder
Cameo is one of two known sex-linked colors. This means that a male Cameo or Cameo BS must get the Cameo color gene from BOTH parents to be a Cameo or Cameo BS. A female can be a Cameo or Cameo BS with only 1 color gene from a single parent. So a Cameo bred to any other color can only produce Cameo HEN chicks and males split to Cameo (ie 1 cameo gene and 1 other color gene).
The black shoulder pattern gene works in the Cameo color just as it does in the India Blue or any other color.
2 BS genes = a Blackshoulder pattern
1 BS gene = a wild-type split to BS
      (looks like a wild type though barring may be diluted or muted looking)
Cameo
Black Shoulder Opal (front) & Opal Yearling hens
Cameo BS hen (left) and Cameo hen (right)
Opal is a relatively new color. As with other colors it comes in Wild Type and Black Shoulder patterns. The chicks are a pretty pattern of beige and silver gray barring?. The hens are a light silver gray and the cocks are silver gray with a  bronzey, teal- green neck and trane. Opal Blackshoulder hens are very similar to blackshouder hens with the silver grey color being evident around the shoulder area. Opal BS chicks are very hard to tell from BS chicks except for their overall lighter appearance.
Opal
We currently have a breeder trio of Opals plus 2 yearling Opal hens and a yearling  Opal BlackShoulder hen for next year!
Even though it's a first trane and still a little sparse,
he's proud of it!
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Valerie Rohwer
Sumerduck, VA
[email protected]
(540) 439-2562
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