Chocolate gene and sexlinkage - can someone explain what I just hatched?

[RememberTheWay]

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If you cross the rooster with a different hen and get sexlinked chicks (or not) there's your answers. I don't think both chocolate and dun are at play here but clearly one is.

Didn't think it was both at first.... But now that I'm wondering if the hen is actually mauve and know that the breeder of the roosters did have dun birds and I know she doesn't keep concise breeding records from questions I've had previous to this- it is definitely possible that he is actually dun and not chocolate split like I originally thought. But then the other poster called into the question the hen too so now I'm super critical of both parents and what exactly is going on.....

 

[RememberTheWay]

Um
If you cross the rooster with a different hen and get sexlinked chicks (or not) there's your answers. I don't think both chocolate and dun are at play here but clearly one is.

But honestly I never intended to hatch from these hens and was on the fence for the rooster. One of the hens went broody and I decided to go ahead and let her hatch them and was surprised at the colors I got so I hatched a few more myself.

 

[Fran James]

I had never heard of platinum. Now I will have to look that up

I think my next question is - is there any way to actually figure out what genes were at play here? Meaning is the hen blue or mauve? Is the rooster split to chocolate or actually dun? Are there disqualifying genes that would eliminate the possibility of either, meaning if there are other genes on the same locus that can't express at the same time or some thing along those lines because I did get other things from this hatch not just the chocolate/mauve/dun colors.

 

[Fran James]

I had never heard of platinum. Now I will have to look that up

I think my next question is - is there any way to actually figure out what genes were at play here? Meaning is the hen blue or mauve? Is the rooster split to chocolate or actually dun? Are there disqualifying genes that would eliminate the possibility of either, meaning if there are other genes on the same locus that can't express at the same time or some thing along those lines because I did get other things from this hatch not just the chocolate/mauve/dun colors.

 

[Fran James]

Pics of my DUN Plaitinums and here is one I sent west to Jeremy for his color project called Rona. I also make em with the Delaware gene as seen in the previous post.

 

[Amer]

Pics of my DUN Plaitinums and here is one I sent west to Jeremy for his color project called Rona. I also make em with the Delaware gene as seen in the previous post.

Rona is pretty!