Chicks on e+?

Hans77

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Can anyone just by looking at the colour of my chicks determine what gene they are on? How sure can I be that this is the wildtype e+ colour?
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e+/eb is what I had expected myself. The mothers would be eb then and the father e+.
 
This is the father:
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He should be e+/e+, which I really hope he turns out to be. I am trying to breed wyandotte bantams in his colour.
This colour is rare, probably even unseen in wyandottes in my country. I imported him. Since there are no hens available and wyandottes in the wild type colour do not exist here, I used my own partridge hens, which are presumably eb, because most colours on wyandottes are, I have learned.

My plan is to put the best daughters (e+/eb normally) with the father, so that I can also create e+/e+ hens. The chest should hopefully become salmon coloured. Fingers crossed and modestly hoping this can somehow succeed.
 
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This is the father:
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He should be e+/e+, which I really hope he turns out to be. I am trying to breed wyandotte bantams in his colour.
This colour is rare, probably even unseen in wyandottes in my country. I imported him. Since there are no hens available and wyandottes in the wild type colour do not exist here, I used my own partridge hens, which are presumably eb, because most colours on wyandottes are, I have learned.

My plan is to put the best daughters (e+/eb normally) with the father, so that I can also create e+/e+ hens. The chest should hopefully become salmon coloured. Fingers crossed and modestly hoping this can somehow succeed.

have you been assured he is pure wildtype(from the pics of the chicks I would say yes, but he could also be e+/eb and you were lucky to hatch just e+/eb instead of eb/eb)

His phenotype is of a Crele(Barred Duckwing), but I have seen the same patter on eb/eb based wyandottes, it just that the females are not salmon breasted but the males looks just like regular crele
 
nicalandia, that is why I asked about the chicks being on e+ or not. I bought the rooster abroad, hoping he would breed true.
 

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