color genetics

  1. P

    Minorca mysteries

    Hello! So... I'm reading about Minorcas and found myself with more questions than before. I found this digitalised book "Minorcas of every comb and color" by George H. Northup. Although other sources say Hamburgs were used to breed the rose-comb. In the book it stated he bred RCs not by...
  2. archaeopteryx

    Mystery heritage turkey?

    Hey, new member here. I've been keeping chickens for almost 25 years but have only recently delved into turkeys. I got nine heritage poults from Tractor Supply in 2024, and all but one of them were easy to identify. I'm curious about the outlier. This is the girl in question, next to a Bourbon...
  3. KailuaSilkies

    What color is this silkie? 13 weeks

    The darker one is 13 weeks and seems to be a pullet. But her color is unlike what I’ve seen before. I say she’s dark chocolate with ashiness but my husband says more black/salt n pepper coloring. She is beautiful and tiny and a little skittish. Always has been. Fairly certain she is a girl. But...
  4. G

    Color talks- blue copper maran over wyandotte

    Hello all! After our incubator mishap, we thoroughly cleaned and calibrated it, and added in some duck eggs. They seem to be doing well. As far as chickens go, our hen decided to go broody so we let her keep a few of her eggs (and added some duck eggs as well). Her two little chicks hatched...
  5. Livia Ammon

    I found a ‘chicken color calculator’, is it legit?

    I found a ‘chicken color calculator’ but I’m not sure if it’s trustworthy. What do you guys think? https://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html?mgt=E:e+/e+,Pg:Pg/Pg,Ml:ml+/ml+,Db:db+/db+,Co:co+/co+&fgt=E:e+/e+,Pg:Pg/Pg,Ml:ml+/ml+,Db:db+/db+,Co:co+/co+
  6. Slothinc

    Recessive white with a black feather?

    I wish there was a category for color, I never know where to put my color genetics questions! Hope this works! I have a recessive white chicken who has developed one black feather on her head. Is this normal/possible in recessive whites? Both of her parents carry recessive white. I just hadn’t...
  7. Livia Ammon

    What genetics do these chickens have?

    I had a pretty black and white roo with cream feathers on his hackles, and bred him against an orange hen with black Colombian markings. They are both Whiting True Blues. I have 6 of their offspring in an incubator ready to hatch, but I can’t contain my curiosity about what color(s) they will...
  8. ChickenCrazy1608

    Question about Ameraucanas

    Does anyone know what would happen if I bred a silver Ameraucana hen with a brown red Ameraucana roo? Would the babies be Easter Egger looking (anything under the sun, broken kinda coloring, random) or would they be silver or brown red? I am wondering because they are my only ameraucanas at this...
  9. B

    Sapphire Sky & Choc Orpington

    Hi everyone!! Brand new here! But I'm fascinated with chicken color genetics! I have a few different types I'm planning on experimenting with crossing. But my first cross will be sapphire sky(not gems) hens with chocolate orpington roo. I haven't been able to find a lot on the sapphire sky...
  10. StefneyRSA

    How did I get WHITE chicks from a blue rooster and blue/black/splash/cuckoo hens? And what will happen if I breed the white back to the blue roo?

    I have Bantam Orpingtons in my backyard flock. This is a new flock that I started in April, all adult (or point of lay) birds from various breeders of bantam Orps. I only have one rooster, he’s blue. And the 5 hens who are the possible mothers are blue, splash, black, and a black cuckoo. My...
  11. tanner17567

    SL Wyandotte over Soeckled Sussex… Any guesses on colors? Who’s into color genetics?!

    Hi everyone! This is just for fun, but I’d love to hear what you think of these lil chicks and how they’ll turn out. Rooster is SL Wyandotte. Hen is Speckled Sussex and maybe a Saphire Gem? I know it was two hen’s eggs, but I can’t for the life of me figure out the second hen. Anywho, my...
  12. HannahGillie

    Wyandottes, which color rooster should I go with?

    Hi all, I am wanting to get a Wyandotte rooster to add to my flock to potentially hatch chicks in the future, but I am not sure what color rooster I should get. I have: 5 Silver laced Wyandotte hens 1 Golden laced Wyandotte hen 1 Blue laced Wyandotte hen. I was planning on getting a golden...
  13. H

    Color ?

    EE . Feathered feet. 15 weeks
  14. H

    Oddball Orpington-what color??

    I picked these two gals up from a breeder who only does chocolate orps (normal, molted and cuckoos) . They're from the same batch of eggs( choc × cuckoo). Obviously one of these girls is normal chocolate. But the other is 2 tone(she was the only one from that batch that was this color and the...
  15. Fordfunnyfarm

    White Red Laced Cornish- Color genetics

    I am getting black feathering coming through on some of my LF WLR Chicks. My pen mainly has jubilee hens, with a correctly colored WRL Rooster. The chicks that are coming out with the black feathers are more correct in the lacing. Is this something I could automatically cull for? Something I can...
  16. MokiYoki

    Chicken Genetics outside of Breeds

    I'm looking for some in-depth help charting out what patternings are the result of what combination of genes. For some extra context I'm using a slightly simplified system by grouping the MC1R alleles into 5 major groups based on the percentage of black pigment displayed when all other modifying...
  17. StefneyRSA

    Color Genetics in Orpintons with Blue Rooster

    What colors can I breed with a blue rooster? I’m still building my Orpington flock and he’s young, so what color hens should I try to find for him? Currently I have 3 hens for him: 1 x blue, 1 x blue splash, 1 x cuckoo. What color chicks will I be able to expect from them? And what are...
  18. pattijoiner

    Columbian Bantam Cochin breeding?

    I received this boy as a gift. I don’t know anything about the Columbian gene and there doesn’t appear to be many Columbian Bantam Cochins. Should I try and find a Columbian girl? Or possibly breed him with the other Cochins I have? ( mottled, black, calico) Not really sure where to go from...
  19. D

    Black East Indie / Call Duck Color Genetics Question!!

    Hey all! I have a black east indie drake and a penciled call duck hen. My hen has now laid 10 eggs- if we incubate, what colors can we expect?
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  20. Debbie292d

    Debbie's Silkies

    I've got quite a bit of incubating going on as I've been buying exhibition/show quality eggs plus hatching my own. 2025 Breeding Pens: MB, Winnie, Ember, and Marsha is somewhere in there Mocha, Charlotte, and a couple of black hens Lester the lemon cuckoo, Carol, Tina, and Tanja...
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