Color Calculator outcome question

[Baybrio]

Hi folks I tried the Genetica Calculator to try and determine what my unplanned Salmon Faverolles rooster x Buckeye hen's chicks might look like as adults. The chicks are yellow with maybe a ting of red and some have a few blackish fuzzy spots on their back and head.

The quick summary from the calculator says:

50% Pullets, black patterned redshouldered/cream incomplete-columbian
50% Cockerels, black patterned yellow/golden columbian

I put in Salmon for the roo color and Red for the hen color into the calculator.

I love the calculator and the little graphics but I cannot picture what these colors look like on a real chicken. Could anyone post a photo of similar colors or explain them to me? Also do you think the black spots are a sex linked characteristics?

And to add some humor in a world where every mutt dog (I have only mutts and love them) is a new breed please refer to these chicks as Illinois Buckerolles

 

[Krys109uk]

The pullets ought to be a yellowish silver columbian in appearance. The males will be a yellow sort of columbian probably with darker yellow hackles & probably chestnut in the shoulder.

The offspring won't be sex linked because the male was silver & the female gold.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I think the dots/spots on the head may be an indication of columbian?

 

[Baybrio]

Thanks Krys109uk and Sonoran Silkies for your answers, I can now visualize what these chicks might look like as they feather. The colors sound very attractive. Before I looked at the color calculator I just assumed I'd have kind of washed out red birds.

Armed with the new info from your descriptions I looked at colors on this site:

http://www.kippengrabbelton.be/colour/kleur.htm

No wonder color genetics interests so many folks. I'm in awe of those of you who take this on, I clearly cannot even tell the difference between yellow, gold and sometimes red, not to mention the patterns and then the unexpected "sports".

I have horses and have an amateurs understanding of their color genetics, equine color genetics are like kindergarten compared to the college level color genetics poultry folks deal with.

Thanks

 

[Henk69]

I am curious how your chicks will become.

The red could leak through the silver/cream, but maybe the columbian does not permit that. Birds without mahogany are bleeched quite a lot by silver and columbian.
The roosters could have red leakage also, but columbian is even more powerful on these males.

Interesting cross!

 

[Baybrio]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to post a few pics of my Salmon Faverolles rooster x Buckeye hen offspring. You genetics folks are awesome. Your descriptions of what my birds would look like as they matured are very accurate.

I have photos of two hens and two roosters. They are now about 6 months old. Not the best photos but you can get an idea of their colors.

First Hen:

Second Hen:

First Rooster:

Second Rooster:

 

[Freeholder]

Is white skin dominant? It looks like all four of these guys have white skin (unless it's just washed out in the pictures?).

Kathleen

ETA: I'd be curious to know how much these guys end up weighing, how quickly they grow/grew, and how well the pullets lay when they start laying.

 

[Baybrio]

Quote:
Kathleen,

They all have white skin, so it looks to be dominant. If out temps ever rise above single digits I'll try and get some rough weights. So far the boys grew faster and are larger than their full Faverolles 1/2 brother. The pullets are larger than my Faverolles hens but not yet as large as their mothers. The pullets seem to be starting to fill out a little.