white from blue...what???

[pips&peeps]

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white+black= blue

splash+slash= splash

black+splash= blue

Blue+blue= 25% black 25% slash, 50% blue

does this mean you can breed white roo or hen to a black and get blue? Genetics confuse me!!! Or only if they are carrying a certain gene?

No, please go back and read the other replies.

 

[janieschicks]

Yes sorry, they came in while I was typing!

 

[marquisella]

pips&peeps :

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does this mean you can breed white roo or hen to a black and get blue? Genetics confuse me!!! Or only if they are carrying a certain gene?

No, please go back and read the other replies.​

I bred black Ameraucanas to black, and got some white. They were recessive. Bred to each other, they will only breed white. White recessive lurks in a lot of chicken breeds....

Sue

 

[silkie_sue]

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It clearly came from a BBS pen and I suppose it could be a light/clean splash..

..as I have no idea what that would look like. What I can tell you

is it was more of a cream color when it hatched and the new feathers came in white. I can find no splash markings on it not even faint. I'll add a

picture the chick in question is the white silkie with the pink comb on the left, the blue in the center hatched with it...the showgirl on the right

was one I added from my SG flock.

This is one of the splash chicks from that same hatch

Thanks, Suz

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep, that would be from your blacks carrying one copy of Rec White. And like you said, most solid White Breeds are recessive. White Leghorns, Hatchery RIWhites, and some gamefowl are the only solid ones I can think of that are Dominant White ( with the additon of Sexlinked Silver in some of them) And then White in Gold patterned birds is Dominant as well. ( such as Red Pyle, Buff Laced, White tailed Red Columbian, ect....)

 

[RAREROO]

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It clearly came from a BBS pen and I suppose it could be a light/clean splash..

..as I have no idea what that would look like. What I can tell you

is it was more of a cream color when it hatched and the new feathers came in white. I can find no splash markings on it not even faint. I'll add a

picture the chick in question is the white silkie with the pink comb on the left, the blue in the center hatched with it...the showgirl on the right

was one I added from my SG flock.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67762_undiehollysugar.jpg


This is one of the splash chicks from that same hatch

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/67762_domino.jpg

Thanks, Suz

I would say it does look White.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oooooh!!! Maybe with that pink comb it's an albino!!!!





Relax I'm totally joking

that would be cool though.

 

[marquisella]

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Hate to burst your bubble, but its probably a boy....

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I was looking at how light it's beak is as well.

 

[silkie_sue]

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Hate to burst your bubble, but its probably a boy....

Yeah I sort of think it looks rooish too.

Suz