Black Copper Maran over Black Americuna, results in White Chick

[connieconnie]

Could your Maran carry splash genetics? Splash Maran chicks look just like it did! With the white and dark spots?

 

[PerryPeckers]

Heyy! I hatched out several French BCM (Roo) and BCM babes and I ended up with two yellow with white spots.. we figured out that they both carried the Wheaten maran gene. Pretty cool!!!

 

[Redsox7715]

I agree that If the mom was truly an Ameraucana, then the chick would have puffy cheeks. I suppose the beard could develop over time, but the cheeks really should already be puffy. Mom is probably an olive egger rather than an Ameraucana. (This is supposedly a common mistake, so the source for your Ameraucana may not have intentionally lied to you. They just might not know any better.) If she were truly an Ameraucana, she would have two copies of the beard gene AND two copies of the blue egg gene. A cross with a BCM would yield chicks with one copy of the beard gene and one copy of the blue egg gene--yielding an olive egger with a beard. If your mama hen is an olive-egger instead of an Ameraucana she probably has only one copy of the dominant blue egg gene. Assuming the dad is the BCM then your chick has a 50/50 chance of being an olive egger/brown egger. If the dad is your OEBC, then the chick has a 50/50 chance for blue egger/white egger. They would be a little tinted, but not a lot since OEBC lay "cream" eggs rather than white. The blue would be more like a blue-green. The chick looks more like a OEBC chick, so I am betting on the OEBC sire. Even though the OEBC is afraid of the BCM, it looks like he braved it. Sex is a strong motivator!

Game hens lay white eggs.

I agree that If the mom was truly an Ameraucana, then the chick would have puffy cheeks. I suppose the beard could develop over time, but the cheeks really should already be puffy. Mom is probably an olive egger rather than an Ameraucana. (This is supposedly a common mistake, so the source for your Ameraucana may not have intentionally lied to you. They just might not know any better.) If she were truly an Ameraucana, she would have two copies of the beard gene AND two copies of the blue egg gene. A cross with a BCM would yield chicks with one copy of the beard gene and one copy of the blue egg gene--yielding an olive egger with a beard. If your mama hen is an olive-egger instead of an Ameraucana she probably has only one copy of the dominant blue egg gene. Assuming the dad is the BCM then your chick has a 50/50 chance of being an olive egger/brown egger. If the dad is your OEBC, then the chick has a 50/50 chance for blue egger/white egger. They would be a little tinted, but not a lot since OEBC lay "cream" eggs rather than white. The blue would be more like a blue-green. The chick looks more like a OEBC chick, so I am betting on the OEBC sire. Even though the OEBC is afraid of the BCM, it looks like he braved it. Sex is a strong motivator!

I know this is an old post, but some of the comments that are put out there as fact, when they are not true is scary. I've owned, bred, and hatched more Pyle game birds than I can count. Maybe you have a rare 1 that lays cream eggs, but all my Pyle eggs have been as white as snow, a long with all my game hen eggs.