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In the Brooder
So what do you get when you cross a golden laced hen with a silver laced Polish Roo?
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I know this is old but someone was asking. What would you get if you cross a white crested black cockreel with a buff laced hen?When you cross golden hens with Silver Roo you get all silver looking chicks.
The reason it doesn’t go both ways is because the Hens only have one Silver/gold gene.
The roo gives all babies his gene but Mom gives her one gene to her sons and the absence of a gene to her daughters which means daughters show dads colour and sons show silver since it’s dominant but carry gold.
So:
Roo gold(ss), hens silver(S-)
- sons(Ss) - silver carry gold
- daughters(s-) - gold
Roo silver(SS), hens gold(s-)
- sons(Ss) - silver carry gold
- daughters(S-) - silver
Also, I noticed people questioning white chicks from blue parents. This is why:
Blue in Polish is from the blue gene which is a co-dominant gene. This means if a bird is black it has 2 of the recessive genes (which is absence of blue), if it gets 1 blue dominant gene and 1 recessive it is Blue, but if it gets 2 blue genes it is Splash which is white with either black or blue specks on it.
So:
bl, bl - Black
Bl, bl - Blue
Bl, Bl - Splash
So:
Breeding two blue parents gives 25% black, 25% Splash, and 50% Blue.
Breeding 2 Black = 100% Black chicks
Breeding 2 splash = 100% slash chicks