breeding/genetics question

[zazouse]

Augeredin,
what do you make of this tan coloring at 10 days?
See the mother of these chicks is a cameo and she was out of either a bronze hen or a blackshouldered hen, so when i saw this new color in my babies from her i thought bronze but then i read that both parents had to contribute a bronze gene to get bronze babies and i do not believe my male has any bronze but who really knows till they bred them,

i have white geese all i ever had and now almost 5 years i had a grey and white pop up..

 

[Arbor]

Maybe your tan coloured bird is a male split to cameo. Sometimes the split can show through slightly. It is definitely not bronze, as its not dark enough. I have a Cameo male split to charcoal. He has some grayish colouring on his flights that my straight cameos don't.

 

[AugeredIn]

I would guess maybe Arbor could be correct. We get lots of variability in the chicks that are IB and bronze. Some are light and some are dark. I get chicks you would swear have to be bronze they are so dark and they ate just IB. I get real light bronze chicks as well. I have never considered the effect of recessive genes.

We do notice however that birds that are split white and single white eye gene birds will be very light colored from birth.

 

[zazouse]

I did have some hatch that were way darker almost black ,one had white flights and they also came out of the cameo ,
so i guess she is giving me a variety LOL

This is one of the real dark ones at 10 days.

 

[zazouse]

Here she is at 15 days old, i do wish she would keep this color, it is so different and i like it.

Here she is with a regular colored girl the same age.

 

[AugeredIn]

The one on the right has the grey I normally associate with Bronze birds.

 

[casportpony]

Here she is at 15 days old, i do wish she would keep this color, it is so different and i like it.

Here she is with a regular colored girl the same age.

Are they both IB chicks?

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

The one in question came from my cameo hen, i do not know what color this is, IB i guess but it sure is an odd color to me and i have hatched out over 40 IB's this season and 2 of them from her are like this sept the other has white flights and is a tad darker with more barring when it left last weekend.