Another Deathlayer color genetic

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Is the “golden” in golden deathlayers non-dominant? I have a couple pures and a few mixes, the rooster is a golden deathlayer. The white and black ones have a Brahma momma, the multi-colored has a white Jersey giant momma and the black one has a lavender Orpington momma.


Now what's confusing me is that the jersey giant mixed one is feathering out fairly similarly colored to a pure but the Brahma ones have no golden, only white and black. Then the orp mix is completely black.

 

[Amer]

Autosomal barring which is what the Deathlayer color is called is polygenetic, caused by multiple genes. Gold is sexlinked recessive.
Looks like your white Jersey has genes that would allow for the autosomal barring to expressm hiding under the recessive white.
The silvery looking chicks are roosters then, getting the dominant silver gene from his mother.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Autosomal barring which is what the Deathlayer color is called is polygenetic, caused by multiple genes. Gold is sexlinked recessive.
Looks like your white Jersey has genes that would allow for the autosomal barring to expressm hiding under the recessive white.
The silvery looking chicks are roosters then, getting the dominant silver gene from his mother.

So the last two(the white and black ones; Brahma mixed) are definitely roosters?

 

[Amer]

So the last two(the white and black ones; Brahma mixed) are definitely roosters?

Yes

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Yes

Well shoot looks like they’re going to new homes in a few months then (they’ll stick around until they start maturing just so I can socialize them more so that they’ll be less likely to become stew pot agressive)

 

[lisa69]

Autosomal barring which is what the Deathlayer color is called is polygenetic, caused by multiple genes. Gold is sexlinked recessive.
Looks like your white Jersey has genes that would allow for the autosomal barring to expressm hiding under the recessive white.
The silvery looking chicks are roosters then, getting the dominant silver gene from his mother.

I have a silver East Frisian gull that I cross with my gold Deathlayer rooster. She confuses me and produces only females. They are these funny colors.

 

[Amer]

I have a silver East Frisian gull that I cross with my gold Deathlayer rooster. She confuses me and produces only females. They are these funny colors.

It looks like she has a copy of the dilute or champagne blond gene, so your hens are cream, not silver. The other hen is regular gold though.

 

[Amer]

Sometimes silvers can have dilutions without you knowing because they are white.

 

[lisa69]

I have a silver East Frisian gull that I cross with my gold Deathlayer rooster. She confuses me and produces only females. They are these funny colors.

The other golds in the same hatch are the gold birds in the first picture . The orange Pullet looks different.

 

[lisa69]

It looks like she has a copy of the dilute or champagne blond gene, so your hens are cream, not silver. The other hen is regular gold though.

These are the regular golds in the same hatch. They don’t look like the orange Pullet in the second picture