Ameracauna color/pattern identification help please

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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Thanks . . . and yes PLEASE post a pic of your cookie on this thread, I would love to see it. Also one of the roo if you have one.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Goldilocks looks like a boy: a rather messy buff columbian.

Fancy Pants and Little Baby are close to wild type.

The only way to get birds to breed true is to breed and select, breed and select, breed and select.

Many of the wild type genes are recessive (not all), which means that they will not show if a more dominant gene is present. Therefore they may well breed fairly true; just be aware that in some cases wild type is not the most recessive (for example, e+ is dominant to e^b and sometimes E^Wh).

I would try breeding with either your splash or black, depending on whether you want blue in the offspring, or acquire a BBR.

If Goldilocks is indeed a cockerel, try pairing him with a splash girl for blue buff columbian. Or a black may (or may not) help even out the buff colouring.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

White always hides colours and patterns--how thoroughly depends on whether it is dominant or recessive white.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

THANKYOU Sonoran!!!
That was exactly what I was looking for.
Goldilocks is definately a hen, uness I 've got the egg layingest rooster of all time LOL - she is a great bird and I kind of thought maybe she was as you say a "messy" columbian pattern.
I was thinking the black might be the best pairing becuase I might just get black chicks which sell very well here.
on a side note; how do I determine if my new whites are dominant or recessive?

 

[pips&peeps]

They are supposedly recessive. But if you do a test mating of the white cockerel over black females, the babies will be black if recessive and white if dominant.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

perfect, great advice, thank you!