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Very handsome.

@RedBanks thank you!

Here is an update of our chicks (now 16 weeks old) i'' very excited about them! Our bcm rooster, jackson pollock; bcm pullet, cinnamon; and blue copper pullet belle Bcm pullet, nutmeg Jackson and belle belle Cinnamon Jackson

@GalShon Beautiful birds, and congrats on the first egg!

very handsome! Our boy is 10 weeks old now. it's been rain, rain and more rain here though the last little while so hoping soon a break so I can get some updated photos as well.

thanks! all these locus and alleles can get confusing, nice to have the clarification (again i'm sure )

how interesting! Good info, thanks Wappoke. If one bred a birchen rooster (Er/Er) with a wheaton hen (eWh/ -) (<--correct for a hen? or is it eWh/eWh) ) , will the birchen always be dominant? Or will there be a small percentage of wheaton coming through? If you had a eWh roo over a birchen...

very cute! Looks like a great hatch, congrats.

Thank you! I'm glad to hear I'm doing good, despite my limitations That makes sense about the males and females... Thank you so much for bearing with me, I think through all this discussion I've really learned quite a bit!! I'm sure, since my questions are never ending, and I keep getting...

How interesting! So are you saying that the genome should be with a MI/- then for the marans @Wappoke ? Reading would be: ER/ER S+/S+ MI/- Id/Id W/W Pti-L/Pti-L? Or am i just now confused...i sure feel like it! LOL I've really only looked into Marans, so it's quite interesting to...

Interesting on your perspective, although I must say, either you and chooks man are saying the same thing (but in different ways), or you are interpreting the scientific research differently then me. Looking at the sources and especially http://www.bantamclub.com/PDF/Smyth.pdf`, I find that...

I agree, cockerel @South OH Chicks

Thank you for the response! I'm not sure if, from what I have read, that most of this fits with the marans, from my understanding of their genetic code they do contain mahogany and Melanotic as the MI allele. I think you may be thinking of the mi allele, which does indeed do what you say -...

ahhhh thank you!!! lol that makes so much more sense now, and has solidified what I thought I have read / figured out. yay! I will take it easy haha, for now i'm looking into maran genetics and specifics to them only. There are so many different alleles...whew! I'm glad that the few that...

Thank you for the response...this makes sense. eb/eb is partridge brown? or am i confusing this with another? How common is the wheaton in marans? just out of curiosity. I was told by someone that the wheaton when it appears in black copper strains that it's not a good line then...is this true...

@Sonoran Silkies so birchen is the copper....ahhh i see. Thank you!! So for it to be dominant it needs to be E^R/E^R correct? And recessive would be E^R/e^r? Or is birchen always dominant? Thank you

Starting to learn genetics and the whole thing seems to be a bit over my head. Just wondering though...is ER/ER the copper gene? or what is? TIA

Here are some updated photos of our chicks...the roo is certainly getting big and has his saddle feathers coming in - they are copper. He has his coppering on the neck becoming stronger too but looks like it is going down the front of his chest...is this too much coppering then? Also, his comb...

Great Ideas! Thanks!! I'll go see what I can gather up for them today. That says a lot CuzChickens, I've always heard that pigs eat practically everything!!

Hmm i guess i'll see what they like then! Ive only given them dug up greens and some flax seeds, maybe i'll try a bit of scratch