color genetics

I'm thinking of adding some Wyandottes to this flock of barnyard mixes. They will most likely be silver laced, blue laced red and maybe buff laced if I can find any eggs. I'm planning on putting them in the barnyard mix flock and letting them mix together over the next couple years. I want to...

Every time I post my black silkie/isabel brahma mix online in my local FB groups everyone always asks what her breed is and that she's absolutely gorgeous and they'd want one. I posted something about her being broody and trying to get her to stop and someone said that I should definitely let...

Hello! I'm interested in learning a bit about budgie color genetics. I own(ed) 4 budgies. 2 are the parents and 2 are their offspring (R.I.P. Kira). I would love to learn what the different colors are all called and what genetics are behind them. I also have a question on how my blue and green...

Okay so once again I'm back with my silkie color generics questions. My rooster is dominant white with lots of red leakage. Hes still pretty young though, so maybe he'll change a little as he grows. I will mainly be breeding him with my black hens and my one cuckoo but I do have one blue hen...

Hello all! I have the opportunity to take over a beautiful Calico Splash project pen (my dream!). I have three beautifully Mottled silkies as well and wondered if Mottled could be used in the Calico Splash project. I mainly just don't want to get rid of the one Mottled baby that has my heart...

I purchased 6 straight run indian runner ducklings off of craigslist this spring, they were hatched on mother's day from a mallard runner drake, a fawn hen and a blue hen. It looks like we had 3 males and 3 females judging by the tail curl. Lots of different colors! I found it hard to voice sex...

My rooster is a dominant white with red leakage on the wings and streamers. I will be breeding him to black (carrying recessive white) hens. I think 1 hen is starting to show silver leakage in the crest now that she's molting. In theory if he passed on dominant white to black, then the chicks...

My kid called this one Dal, here she is as a hatchling (she’s the loud mouth in the back) When she started growing feathers: 3 weeks, next to an Egyptian and Tibetan (disregard their tomato!) a different breeder suggested she was a Pearl at this point. And now at almost 6 weeks 🤯🤩 her...

Hey y'all, I'm purchasing the following Polish Chicken colors; - Roo - Silver Lace - Hens - Golden Lace - Hens - Buff Lace I want to know the color outcomes of breeding the male Sliver Lace to each of the 2 hen colors. What is dom and what is recessive?

This is my (almost) 4 month old pullet Oakley. She is half silkie, half bantam brahma. I'm going to keep her as a pet in my silkie flock, just like I have her mother. She has 2 other full sisters, but I will be keeping Oakley because of her personality. Let's start by discussing her genetics...

Okay, so I've seen a lot of people saying that they are using for example: a black rooster from paint breeding. Does it make a difference though? Because as far as I know the dominant white from paint can't be recessive, so why does it matter if the black chicken's parents were black or paint...

I found this photo on a silkie Facebook group. All photo credits to the owner. What is this color? People commented that he's a blue with red leakage, but in that case where are the white patches coming from? Others were saying calico, but what are the genetics behind calico? Also while...

First things first I wanna say that I wouldn't plan to make it an official color or anything. Just like a fun project for myself. In the end result a flock of chickens that look like silkies, but are a unique color never before seen in silkies. I also don't plan to do it anytime soon because I...

:he I am a novice to genetics, but trying to make some sense of this. I have a goose (Miss Lemon) who came from a white Sebastopol goose and a Pomeranian Saddleback gander. Miss Lemon mated with a lavender Sebastopol gander (Onslow). If Saddleback falls into the gene category of pied (Sp or sp)...

I have a silkie I thought was a dominant white, but he started getting beige in the wing tips, back, neck and a few buffy looking pin feathers at the base of his tail. He also recently got a black feather on his wing. And now there's 2 buff looking feathers in his wings. My theory is that his...

First time poster but have read many of your great posts on duck & running duck coloring / genetics. I have a US Fawn & White runner drake accidently crossed with a Chocolate blue egg running mom both from Metzer. Mom was pure chocolate but started to get white feathers each season & I have...

I hatched 6 silkie chicks a couple days ago. 2 lavender, 2 that are supposed to have biggest crests, beards and leg floof and 2 chicks from my own chickens (1 of those is a silkie × bantam brahma). In short I had eggs from 3 different places and 2 chicks hatched from every place. I still have 6...

We have just hatched out our first set of chicks from our Gold Deathlayers. Our flock consists of Gold Hens and a Gold Rooster. We do have one Lemon hen. I have noticed that one chick is significantly lighter than the others. Would this indicate a lemon?

I have a Blue Ameraucana rooster, 1 Blue Ameraucana hen, and 2 EE hens. Both EE hens are laying colored eggs; one lays an almost identical blue to my Ameraucana hen, one lays a nice minty green. I'm wanting to breed my roo to these 3 ladies to produce more colorful egg layers but would the...

I hatched these roosters this spring in a large hatch of a mix of black copper maran, Americauna, black silkie, leghorn and Brahma from hatching eggs I bought from someone else. I’m wanting to keep the roosters that’ll help color up my egg basket! If you have any ideas on who would be best or...