Behind the scenes?

[lilwanderer]

I'm aware of the obvious, but how come they usually don't take much of the father's coloring? It seems that's always the case with my chickens, unless it's some rare occasion.
So how does she, a cuckoo:

and he, a blr wyandotte:

make this little but not so little guy?:

 

[lilwanderer]

I'm aware of the obvious, but how come they usually don't take much of the father's coloring? It seems that's always the case with my chickens, unless it's some rare occasion.
So how does she, a cuckoo:
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and he, a blr wyandotte: View attachment 3072670make this little but not so little guy?:
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Chick photos:

 

[lilwanderer]

Along with that, the blr rooster and one of my golden sebright mixes made this, she was one of my rare occasion chicks:

 

[3KillerBs]

Barring is a sex-linked trait.

Any barred/cuckoo female paired with a non-barred male will have barred male chicks and non-barred female chicks.

There are many charts available for Blue-Black-Splash genetics:

I'm afraid I don't understand the inheritance of red very well. I also don't understand the inheritance of white legs vs yellow legs.

But the first pair producing a Blue Cuckoo male is a 50-50 chance because all males will be cuckoo and 50% of them will be blue.

 

[lilwanderer]

Barring is a sex-linked trait.

Any barred/cuckoo female paired with a non-barred male will have barred male chicks and non-barred female chicks.

There are many charts available for Blue-Black-Splash genetics:

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I'm afraid I don't understand the inheritance of red very well. I also don't understand the inheritance of white legs vs yellow legs.

But the first pair producing a Blue Cuckoo male is a 50-50 chance because all males will be cuckoo and 50% of them will be blue.

Yes he did appear to be a sex-link since he hatched, so that does make a lot of sense. Although I haven't bred that pair often so I'm not sure how they'd turn out as hens, as I don't have any hens from that pair, I'm guessing they'd look a lot like their father for the most part?

 

[3KillerBs]

Yes he did appear to be a sex-link since he hatched, so that does make a lot of sense. Although I haven't bred that pair often so I'm not sure how they'd turn out as hens, as I don't have any hens from that pair, I'm guessing they'd look a lot like their father for the most part?

They'd be non-barred and 50% of them would be blue.

I don't know how lacing transmits but I *think* it's recessive and needs paired genes to express. Someone more knowledgeable would have to speak to that.

 

[lilwanderer]

They'd be non-barred and 50% of them would be blue.

I don't know how lacing transmits but I *think* it's recessive and needs paired genes to express. Someone more knowledgeable would have to speak to that.

Yes, that hen I showed doesn't have what I'd call lacing, just her fathers coloring. They may not take the lacing gene, it'd make sense. I'm not sure about it either even though I have a few lacing breeds. Overall, knowing that the barred hens I have will give me sex-links with their chicks, sexing future ones will be rather easy so I'll take it.

 

[3KillerBs]

Yes, that hen I showed doesn't have what I'd call lacing, just her fathers coloring. They may not take the lacing gene, it'd make sense. I'm not sure about it either even though I have a few lacing breeds. Overall, knowing that the barred hens I have will give me sex-links with their chicks, sexing future ones will be rather easy so I'll take it.

My own flock is such that while not all boys I hatch will be barred, all barred chicks I hatch will be boys.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

White legs are dominant over yellow.
So dad’s babies won’t have yellow legs unless mom carries yellow.
Barring is a dominant gene, so it will always show if present. It is also carried on the Z chromosome, so can be used to make sexlinks if you cross a barred female x non barred male.

Your boy got blue from his dad and barring from his mom, giving him blue barring. He also inherited his dad’s dominant rose comb, with his mom’s dominant white skin.

There is no single “lacing“ gene.
Lacing is a combination of partridge, pattern gene, Melanotic, and Columbian. So unless you cross two laced birds together you generally won’t get lacing in the first generation cross