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Wild type in chickens refers to the genes found in the red jungle fowl. A good example of a bird that has the wild type genes is a light brown leghorn. Yellow skin, yellow shanks and feet, black breasted red phenotype in males and females are all wild type. The blue allele is not a wild type...

there are no genes in chickens that will produce a blue as is found in other birds; blue jay, eastern bluebird, indigo bunting. etc. Blue in the world of chickens is actually a diluted black. and is due to eumelanin pigments; blue in other birds is a structural color. The blue in the birds I...

In the United states, blue laced red wyandottes and gold laced red wyandottes are almost genetically the same but the blue laced red carry the incompletely dominant gene blue ( Bl*Bl/Bl*bl) . The blue gene dilutes the black lace to a blue lace. Two blue alleles produce a splash lace, The blue...