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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a picture from this morning. Anyone else have any ideas? These Polish are kept in their own pen, so the chick is not mixed.

These are the parents of the chick in question. Two wc blues and two wc blacks also hatched from these birds. .

I got some hatching eggs from a friend and they hatched today. Her rooster is a WC Black Polish. Her hens are WC black and WC blue. This chick (on the left) does not look like a typical WC Black to me. It even has a light color stripe in the middle of the black patch. My friend said she's never...

for breeding olive eggers, which of these options is best for producing layers of darker olive eggers?? (1) F1 olive egger hens with an F1 olive egger rooster (2) Marans hens with an F1 olive egger rooster (3) F1 olive egger hens with a Marans rooster

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1166158/what-breed any genetic info regarding this post (linked above) would be great!

Just in case anyone may be curious about how buff coloring in Polish chickens interacts with other genes... here are two chicks that each have one buff laced Polish parent. The white one's mother is a buff colored easter egger. The other chick's mother is a gold laced Polish. They have the same...

Barring is dominant. One copy gives you a chicken that appears darker than two copies would. But, the barring is obvious if they chicken has it. It looks like your Creole cock has only one copy of the barring gene because I'm not seeing barring on this cockerel.

Genetically, what is going on with this 10 week old chick? I've tried to wrap my head around how he got his markings and coloration. His father is a true Wheaten Ameraucana from show stock/champion bloodlines. I *suspect* that he hen pictured is his mother because she is my only hen with silver...

Do these gold laced Polish x easter egger chicks show both gold and silver simultaneously because they are males and carry one copy of each gene (gold and silver)? Or is there a different explanation? They have gold on most of the body and silver on the chest and shoulders. The black Ameraucana...

I have never heard of using skin color or eye color to distinguish males from females. You'll have to wait and see if someone else know more about that. Since the male is barred and the females are blue (gray chickens are called blue), the offspring will all be barred. You will not be able to...

all blue, some with leakage is my guess.

There is a lot more to a breed than color so you'd have to work on those other features for many generations if you mix breeds. If color is all you're interested in, then I'll do my best to answer... To answer your question about color... 1) Silver rooster x Gold hen = 100 silver offspring...

Now, that is fascinating. I did not realize that splash and blue in wheaten were diluted by the exact same gene that dilutes solid black to blue and splash. Is the same modifier at work in these easter eggers? Are they blue black and splash under their gold?

More than happy to help! I started out knowing nothing about chicken genetics. It may sound like I know a lot, but there SO MUCH MORE to learn. I'm trying to understand lacing and pattern genes but I don't know nearly enough to help anyone with questions about those LOL