Feather genetics.

[LittleBigBantam]

It's me again I am trying to breed an interesting mix from my blue ameraucauna rooster and my hens and I need advice. I'll post pictures of all my hens + my roo. I want to get some crazy colors/feather patterns out of it, but so far I've only gotten black, grey, and white :/ can someone explain dominant/recessive when it comes to mixing the black/splash with brown and white? And if feather patterns such as penciled/laced are dominant/recessive and if they'll show up.

Thanks.

 

[LittleBigBantam]

It's me again I am trying to breed an interesting mix from my blue ameraucauna rooster and my hens and I need advice. I'll post pictures of all my hens + my roo. I want to get some crazy colors/feather patterns out of it, but so far I've only gotten black, grey, and white :/ can someone explain dominant/recessive when it comes to mixing the black/splash with brown and white? And if feather patterns such as penciled/laced are dominant/recessive and if they'll show up.

Thanks.

Bottom picture is my roo, the rest are my hens. I also have a white leghorn but I couldn't get a picture of her.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

In the first generation, you’re likely going to see a lot of blacks and blues with no leakage or leakage around their necks and, on the roos, saddle feathers. Some of them might be partially laced. Your white leghorn will give you some white chicks with a few random black or blue spots.
However, once you breed the first generation together, you’ll start seeing recessive genes and more patterning and colors show up. Even better, breed a colorful first generation rooster (or, for even more colors, roosters), back to the parent hens. Either way, you’ll start to see a bunch of colorful offspring, though breeding back to the parents would probably get you more. In the second generation, you could get mottling (spots from the d’uccle), splash (from any blue to blue breeding), and lavender (from the Orpington). They’ll certainly be more colorful than the first generation and have some crazy patterns too.

 

[LittleBigBantam]

In the first generation, you’re likely going to see a lot of blacks and blues with no leakage or leakage around their necks and, on the roos, saddle feathers. Some of them might be partially laced. Your white leghorn will give you some white chicks with a few random black or blue spots.
However, once you breed the first generation together, you’ll start seeing recessive genes and more patterning and colors show up. Even better, breed a colorful first generation rooster (or, for even more colors, roosters), back to the parent hens. Either way, you’ll start to see a bunch of colorful offspring, though breeding back to the parents would probably get you more. In the second generation, you could get mottling (spots from the d’uccle), splash (from any blue to blue breeding), and lavender (from the Orpington). They’ll certainly be more colorful than the first generation and have some crazy patterns too.

Okay, I have quite a few chicks now with leakage around the neck. My new question is what will happen when he is bred with a buff brahma or a rhode island red? Will I get different colors?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Okay, I have quite a few chicks now with leakage around the neck. My new question is what will happen when he is bred with a buff brahma or a rhode island red? Will I get different colors?

When the blue ameraucana is bred? Or his offspring?

 

[LittleBigBantam]

When the blue ameraucana is bred? Or his offspring?

Sorry, when he breeds with the rhode island red, what will his offspring look like.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Sorry, when he breeds with the rhode island red, what will his offspring look like.

Assuming you mean your current rooster, they’ll be black or blue with either no leakage or some red leakage around their necks (and saddles and shoulders for roos).