My understanding of the sex link gene is that only the males can be split to a sex linked color. Your hens may be split to opal but not cameo.
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Incorrect, my hens are in fact cameos, but they carry opal. It is key when splitting birds of the sex link colours that you use a male of that colour, otherwise the colour is only passed on to the males.My understanding of the sex link gene is that only the males can be split to a sex linked color. Your hens may be split to opal but not cameo.
I agree with what you are saying, but in your previous post you said your hens were split to cameo and opal. That was why I made my comment. Cameo is a sex link color. Opal is not. Cameo hens can be split to opal.Incorrect, my hens are in fact cameos, but they carry opal. It is key when splitting birds of the sex link colours that you use a male of that colour, otherwise the colour is only passed on to the males.
Male cameo x female opal = cameo hens (split to opal) and IB males (split to opal and cameo). The punnett square below shows how it is possible. Cameo is only carried on the male chromosome (Z), while opal is carried on both (both chromosomes need to carry the opal gene in order to be visually opal) (W annotates female genetic info).
Z (opal) W (opal)
Z(cameo) Z(opal)Z(cameo) Z(cameo)W(opal)
Z(cameo) Z (opal)Z(cameo Z(cameo)W(opal)
If this were flipped (ie. opal male on cameo hen, only the males would be split to both). You will find in a couple of years that many of the newer colours have been and will be produced this way. Both Roughwood and Texas Peafowl have stated on their websites concerning the combining of colours (Roughwood has a purple bronze combo he calls indigo). I am attempting this with at least 6 of the colours, the only problem is odds. A lot of birds have to be produced to get the desired colour combination. THis is the same when breeding blackshoulder into a colour. I have birds that are split bs and bronze, but their resulting offspring will only end in 1:16 chances of getting a blackshoulder bronze (could be either male or female). We'll see how good my odds are next year
I'll give you a very simple explanation because I'm not very good with the punnet squares.Question
I was told that sexlinks can not be split so how can a cameo hen be split with opal or any color?
Like my hen is out of a cameo male over BS she is sexlinked right?
To get back to the subject. I would say 2 India blue, 1 silver pied and 1 either Cameo or Purple. I agree with Arbor that the white is probably masking the color and is the father. Does the lighter color chick have white flight feathers? It's hard to tell from this picture. When you have a mixture of birds breeding like this, you never know what may be in the gene pool.
You know i am thinking 3 of my males are split cameo because the breeder only had one pen of blues and they were throwing pieds and split whies only so these boys had to come from the cameo pen if all males look blue but are split cameo.I'll give you a very simple explanation because I'm not very good with the punnet squares.
Yes, your hen (Cameo) is a sex linked color and she is split to blackshoulder. Regardless of their color, all hens can be split to the 'regular' colors, patterns, etc. But no hens can be split to a sex linked color. Males only can be split to a sex linked color.