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meepANDpeep said:
My millefleur is a buff columbian base with mottling. Is columbian related to partridge? I suppose they do look pretty similar, so that makes a lot of sense.

And about the birchen, yeah some of them did turn out birchen-mixed looking (i.e. the same as him), but maybe he only has one copy so then only half the offspring would receive it. I didn't know birchen was dominant, though. That's neat.
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Mille Fleur is Gold + Columbian + Partridge + Mottling.

Partridge, & Columbian are two different genes.
 
MysteryChicken said:
You're welcome.
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FYI @MysteryChicken you asked why I suspected that they were male and I mentioned I DNA tested. But I had a feeling they were male before that. I’ll tell you why in case it interests you especially since I was right.

This is the second small batch I’ve DNA tested and the previous one, the results came back that all the chicks that were yellow-footed on their hatch day were males. A lot of them lost the yellow coloring as they aged. It got covered up faster in the black ones especially and became grey in most of the white ones even, but these three males had yellow tints to their feet. The females had grey to black feet the entire time.

I started reading up on the sex-linkage with some of the feet colors but had a hard time explaining this one because yellow doesn’t seem to be sex linked. But maybe a color that covers up yellow is??

Either way I think it’s beyond coincidence now.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
 
meepANDpeep said:
FYI @MysteryChicken you asked why I suspected that they were male and I mentioned I DNA tested. But I had a feeling they were male before that. I’ll tell you why in case it interests you especially since I was right.

This is the second small batch I’ve DNA tested and the previous one, the results came back that all the chicks that were yellow-footed on their hatch day were males. A lot of them lost the yellow coloring as they aged. It got covered up faster in the black ones especially and became grey in most of the white ones even, but these three males had yellow tints to their feet. The females had grey to black feet the entire time.

I started reading up on the sex-linkage with some of the feet colors but had a hard time explaining this one because yellow doesn’t seem to be sex linked. But maybe a color that covers up yellow is??

Either way I think it’s beyond coincidence now.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Yellow is just white, with a pigmentation gene that turns the skin yellow.

This boy of mine is from Largefowl Silkie Rooster X Light Brahma hen. A Sex-linked crossing.
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Him as a 1 day old.
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meepANDpeep said:
FYI @MysteryChicken you asked why I suspected that they were male and I mentioned I DNA tested. But I had a feeling they were male before that. I’ll tell you why in case it interests you especially since I was right.

This is the second small batch I’ve DNA tested and the previous one, the results came back that all the chicks that were yellow-footed on their hatch day were males. A lot of them lost the yellow coloring as they aged. It got covered up faster in the black ones especially and became grey in most of the white ones even, but these three males had yellow tints to their feet. The females had grey to black feet the entire time.

I started reading up on the sex-linkage with some of the feet colors but had a hard time explaining this one because yellow doesn’t seem to be sex linked. But maybe a color that covers up yellow is??

Either way I think it’s beyond coincidence now.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Yes, I know about the DNA sexing, since you brought it up with me before.
 

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