He appears to be a black tailed white. It would carry the columbian gene or the dark brown gene and sex-linked silver. There is no white edging on the few tail feathers so I favor the columbian gene as being the restrictor. The E locus allele could be brown, wheaten or wild type. The red in the shoulders, etc. is from autosomal red. He has yellow skin so he carries two recessive yellow skin genes, He also carries sex-linked dermal melanin inhibitor. Looks like a pea comb so he is carrying two pea comb allelles at the p comb locus and recessive alleles at the rose and duplex comb loci. There are other genes he carries; I mentioned what I believe are the most important.
Thank you for dissecting him for me, lol... I just got the Van Dort Chicken Colours book for Christmas. along with a copy of the SOP..... reading Van Dort last night, I decided on the autosomal red, but I couldn't figure out the black tail feathers.
If he were yours, what color variety would you breed him with to clean up some of this color mess?
There are only 5 "approved" colors for Araucana, and 4 of them require willow legs. Should this guy also have willow legs? Is that linked to his skin color?
I believe these are his parents: