Black To White Experiment

[MysteryChicken]

One thing I came across this morning while I wasn't even looking for it, check out Progressive Pied in Coturnix Quails? It's got striking similarities.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Sent pictures to someone I found randomly on Facebook who has friends who study Genetics as well. The person was amazed about my birds.

 

[Rillowen]

Hmm ok, well there goes that thought! Unless he was maybe secretly carrying both, or the mom was
If my wild suppositions annoy you just let me know and I'll stop. I'm just enjoying the mental puzzle!
Hmm so Domino only inherited 1 sex link, which is why his bars are light color not no color. So then its actually possible that he didnt pass it on to his daughter, and of course she couldn't get it from mom, so she might have not inherited any sex linked barring at all, but did get the dark from mom and/brown rust plumage from dad. But then why does she change color? Is it completely unrelated to the barring and is a new mutation that caused the dominant gene to become messed up so an ancient recessive gene for color changing came out? Or perhaps the stabilizing/intermittent gene is missing and she did inherit the barring but instead of turning on and off periodically like it normally does it turns All on (white) or all off (black) but the problem with that is that I wouldn't think that her rust speckled would be unaffected.
Yes I'm back to doing a diet study lol.