Breeding splash to non bbs colors? (Seramas)

[WVduckchick]

@TJChickens
@dotm8rix
@Glenda Heywoodo
@WVduckchick

Any of you care to weigh in on this?

Um.. only that I don't think anything is predictable with Seramas.

But I'll follow along and weigh in if I can.

 

[Kusanar]

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My little guy

Wow, I knew they weren't full size, but I didn't know they were THAT little! That's adorable!! Perching on 1 finger!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Wow, I knew they weren't full size, but I didn't know they were THAT little! That's adorable!! Perching on 1 finger!!

Wellll, he's not full grown in that picture. Micros may be that small, though.

 

[Kusanar]

Wellll, he's not full grown in that picture. Micros may be that small, though.

Still really cute. I would likely train the things to fly to your glove like a raptor if I had them.

 

[junebuggena]

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My little guy

Your guy has a single copy of dominant white, allowing black flecks to show.
@bullets guy is pale grey with 'splashes' of darker grey. Completely different.

 

[Bunnylady]

Your guy has a single copy of dominant white, allowing black flecks to show.
@bullets guy is pale grey with 'splashes' of darker grey. Completely different.

Does Dominant White ever produce an almost completely colored bird, with just a few streaks of white in the wings and tail? Or maybe a solid black bird with white tips on a lot of feathers? Because up until now, that's as much white as we've had; that and what looks like a combination of Columbian and silver. Never had a completely white bird, nor a Pyle or even one like this until now.

 

[junebuggena]

Dominant white only affects black. Look at most commercially bred red sexlinks. They are red with white. That's dominant white, only affecting black pigment. Gold is left alone. It's recessive white that will cover everything.
Solid black with a few white wing feathers is actually pretty common in most extended blacks. Most of the time, the white molts out later on. Like with these Australorps. By the time they reached 14 weeks old, the white was completely gone.

 

[Bunnylady]

I don't mean the white that molts out, I mean this:

Both of these birds are at least two years old.

 

[WVduckchick]

I have alot of irregular black and whites. Exchequer?

 

[junebuggena]

I don't mean the white that molts out, I mean this:
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Both of these birds are at least two years old.

With the rooster, it's white that just didn't molt out. Not caused by a specific color gene, might be nutritional or some sort of random mutation. The hen is mottled.

I have alot of irregular black and whites. Exchequer?

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Also mottling except for the last one. That looks like birchen with dark brown removing the black from the chest and allow the silver ground color show.
There are only 4 genes that will strip pigment producing white. They are dominant white, recessive white, mottling, and barring/cuckoo. Barring is dominant, mottling is recessive.