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What really messes me up is all the different phenotype names in the different breeds! In games Spangled means what most people think of mottled, so when I saw real spangled birds I was confused! I wish people would only use the correct name of the birds geneotype (although I doubt most...

Thank you so much! That really helped a lot! I do a lot better when I can link images with genes and names. What you did there really helps my brain process information!

Yes, that is my point exactly. People keep using different names for phenotype and are not really using the correct names for geneotype, which is confusing me greatly! LOL

Wow! Thank you all so much everyone, however, I think my brain just exploded. I think we are getting caught up in something I see in mouse genetics all the time. One person from county A calls gene X = Peach Person from Country B (in the south) calls this gene= Lemon Person from Country B...

Thanks! Pictures help so much! I need to go look at my birds again to try to figure out if they are BBR or Brown.

So wild type (e+) is not partridge? For some reason, I was thinking it was. Looking at those pictures, it looks like the hen I thought was Wheaten might be wild type and the ones I thought were wild type might be brown.

I am glad you said that. My spangled bird does look a lot more like mottled (white spots irregularly throughout feathers) then true spangled (black spots on the edge of feathers). So can a hen have two copies of these genes or since they have a 'w' gene, they can't carry more then one copy?

Anyone? Anything would be helpful!

I have a flock of American Games. I have two roos- they both look BBR, but they might be wheaten. I have 5 hens- 4 look BBR and one looks wheaten. I have 10 pullets- one is just about to start laying. That older hen looks like she might be brown. How can all these gene exist in the same flock...