Brahma-Cochin Bantam Cross (Hen and Chick Photos)

[Scott]

If any lives locally and would like to buy this hen and her chicks, please contact me. I am selling them. FYI, I am in Southeast Missouri.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Thank you!

If you're making a trip down into AR or NE OK anytime soon, I may be interested!

 

[Scott]

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Thank you!

If you're making a trip down into AR or NE OK anytime soon, I may be interested!

I'll be in Southwest Missouri (Springfield) in a couple of weeks. Could possibly make it to Joplin.

 

[dixiechick]

Scott--nice chicken pad....sharing it with DH, but he ain't biting to "improve" our chicken condo!

 

[Krys109uk]

Presumably the little one has started to feather up a it now.
For you to get a yellow chick from black chickens would mean that your male is also carrying something other than extended black. Had the male been 'pure' for extended black one would have expected the offspring from that pullet to be black even if her father was a light brahma.

 

[Scott]

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Hmmm.... strange. She ended up having 3 light colored chicks. The dad is most definately a black cochin. I only have two roosters and both are black cochins. Perhaps some random rooster broke into my chicken house.

I am kidding, of course.

 

[Scott]

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Thanks, I'm proud of it. Good luck with your hubby!

 

[Krys109uk]

I wasn't saying that the father wasn't a black cochin, just that he isn't pure for extended black & is carrying a recessive gene. To get a yellow chick it would take two genes (probably wheaten).....one from each parent.

 

[Scott]

Interesting. So one of those roosters is carrying a yellow/wheaten gene? Should a pure black cochin be carrying that gene? I've never got a yellow chick before until she had these (her first). Extended black? What does that mean exactly? Sorry, don't know much about genetics.

 

[Krys109uk]

Most, but not all, black birds are extended black, with other genes to make them properly black. (Extended black birds usually have black legs whereas brown blacks can have other coloured legs).
If one bird is carrying two extended black genes, it is unlikely that they will have yellow chicks at all,(unless they carry recessive white or the bird they are mated with is dominant white).
When a bird inherits an extended black gene it tens to be black downed irrespective of the other gene for the pair inherited from its other parent.
So if your male carried only extended black genes in this particular gene pair, no matter what what gene, for this gene pair it inherited from its mother, it still ought to hatch out black (for ease ignoring any other genes which might affect black).
If both the mother & the father have one exteded black gene & one wheaten gene as their gene pair for this trait the chicks can inherit either two extended black genes & be 'pure' for extended black, or they could inherit one extended back gene from one parent & one wheaten gene from the other, these chicks would still be black but would be 'split' for extended black& wheaten, or they might inherit a wheaten gene from each parent, & then they would be yellow, 'pure' for wheaten. All things being equal, the percentage of yellow chicks from such parents would be about 25%.