Aaah that makes sense now thank you.
So if this rooster has one copy of the barring gene he would pass that on to all chicks? (He might have some brown leghorn) or just some? Is that trait recessive? (So he’d need two copies to look barred?)
You’d never know i took AP biology in high school lol.
“Males will have a larger, lighter spot on their heads, and lighter colored legs, too. Females will have a smaller, darker spot on their heads, and will have darker legs. The males will be lighter grayish/goldish colored with big head spots and the females will be brown with small head spot.”...
This is what I was working off, with the assumption he was not barred.
http://nmcpoultry.com/gc_maran.htm
If he does have leghorn then he must have a barred gene which throws this off.
I must be confused. The Marans moms had white solid circle head spots as chicks. I thought it wasn’t the existence of the spot, but its size/definition for Marans.
The rooster is not barred. Here he is. We think there is some brown leghorn in there. He hatched from a blue egg but I know that doesn’t mean he has blue egg genes.
Just hatched Marans x Easter egger eggs (golden cuckoo and blue cuckoo moms, Easter egger dad) and wondering if the head spot autosexing will still apply? Here are the 5. I think I have 3 girls and two boys. Ideas?
This one (Tormund) I think boy-huge white splash. Golden cuckoo (I think...might...