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As far as I'm aware, regardless of other genes a bird carries, if it's homozygous for recessive white then it will just be white. Recessive white works by inhibiting the production of tyrosinase, the enzyme used to make the melanins that color feathers. Without that enzyme, there's simply no...

You are not wrong at all! 🙂 Reread my post, I was definitely not describing blue. Blue is a partial dominant gene; one copy gives a partial effect, diluting black to blue-gray, and two copies give a more complete effect, diluting it further to grayish white with blue-gray flecks. That means...

Agreed. Mille Fleur Cochins are still very much a work in progress, so when breeding them you'll often get birds with red, white, and black on them in different proportions instead of neat patterning like in Mille Fleur d'Uccles. They're pretty birds regardless, but not very consistent in...

Yes, Self-Blue is the same as Lavender. Self-Blue is an old term for the color that is still used in the standard for Lavender varieties of breeds. Lavender is my preferred term for it, personally, because not only is the gene called the lavender gene so it matches with the genetic terminology...

I would not get Splash, personally. That introduces a completely different plumage color gene that can complicate things. In your shoes, I would either look for a Lavender (also called Self Blue if that helps expand your search a bit) or just cross the Lavender hen to your Black rooster and...

Yeah, looks like a very leaky black mottled like what you might see out of Mille Fleur projects, I agree. Crossing him to a Lavender hen would most likely just produce black chicks with color leakage, all carrying mottling and lavender as both genes are recessive.

Lavender is genetically a solid black bird with two copies of the lavender gene. The lavender gene is recessive, so a bird must inherit two copies, one from the father and one from the mother, to express it. If inherited from only one parent, they will carry the gene and can pass it on to their...