A few months ago I bred my solid black langshan buckeye bantam cross (has a pea comb), with a purebred silver spangled hamburg bantam cock. The result was a bantam pullet with two feathers on each leg and double silver lacing. She is very pretty, and has the shape of a hamburg. She also has no comb, just a smooth spot where one should be. She is about 3 months old now. I would like to know how this pullet is laced, when her parents are solid black, and silver spangled. Also, I was wondering if I bred the same parents again, would the offspring would be consistently silver laced? I do not have any good pictures of her available at this time.
such an easy question, wonder why it took too long to get answered..
but here I go..
the Sire cock genome is
E/eWh = Extended Black/Wheaten Heterozygote (making him solid black colored, Wheaten from Buckeye)
Co/co+ = Columbian Heterozygote (Columbian from Buckeye parent)
Ml/ml+ = Melanotic (one melanotic gene from langshan parent)
S/s+ = Golden, one Silver gene from Langshan parent
the Dame hen genome is
ER/ER = Birchen, spangled Hamburgs are ER based
Pg/Pg = Pattern Gene, without it you cant have patterns like laced, or spangled, or autosomal barring
Ml/Ml = Melanotic, it shows as Black hackle and saddle on self Blue birds based on Bl/bl+ and Extended black, need it for spangling
Db/Db = Dark Brown, about the most powerful columbian restrictor and need it for Spangling
S/- = Silver, Sex linked dominant
so how exactly this happened? well that hen Had all of the Genes need it for a Silver Laced bird that is based on Birchen, like Silver Laced Sebright, Silver Laced Sebright genome is ER/ER Pg/Pg Ml/Ml Db/Db Co/Co,
your Silver laced hens genome is
ER/eWh = Birchen/eWh(wheaten from Buckeye grand parent)
Pg/pg+ = Pattern gene(from spangled mother)
Ml/Ml = Melanotic from langshan grand parent and spangled mother
Db/db+ = Dark brown restrictor from spangled mother
Co/co+ = Columbian restrictor from Buckeye grand parent..
S/- = Silver, Sex linked dominant and she got this from her Langshang grand parent..
so if you look at her genome it will look almost identical to the Silver Laced Sebright genome, ER/eWh Pg/pg+ Ml/Ml Db/db+ Co/co+ and Thats why she is Silver Laced..
If you cross the same parens(Langshan/Buckeye x Silver Spangled) again, you will have alot of chicks with different patterns, some will hatch gold spangled, some will be gold laced, and some will be solid black, you just won the genetic lotery I guess
