Color Genetic Guesses on This Rooster

Rujzin

Songster
7 Years
Jan 9, 2016
54
40
104
Missouri
Color gurus, what do you think this color pattern is?

Would Dominant White do something like this? The hackles are golden so I didn't think it'd be Dominant White, though the tail and wing makes it look that way.

I don't know anything about his background. I was at a swap, saw him in a cage, and without thinking about it I brought him home. Forgive his comb in the picture - it was covered in dried blood. He had obviously been sharing a pen with someone who didn't like him.

I tried playing around in the chicken genetics calculator but couldn't find a combo that looked right.
 

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It's not a red sex link rooster.
The whole idea behind red sex links is breeding a gold based rooster to a silver based hen so the female offspring will be gold based and the male offspring won't.
That rooster has the same look as a red sex link hen which is completely wrong for a RSL rooster. How well would you think sexing them as chicks go?
 
He has dominant white and red columbian. Not a sexlink, but may have RIR and white leghorn in him (same breeds as typically used to create RSLs).
White Leghorns can't be use on sex linked crosses due to them being Extended Black at the e locus, to learn more about what are the genetic background of the RSL Cross just look at my thread about it.

As for the pattern on the rooster, it's Gold base Columbian with dominant white, Enter this on the chicken color calculator: eWh/eWh(Wheaten), Co/Co(Columbia), Mh/Mh(Mahogany), s+/s+(sex linked golg), I/I(Dominant White)
 
The Main reason is that the SOP calls for Clear Yellow shanks, its nearly impossible to have black chickens with Yellow shanks, this is not the casé for Dominant White diluted birds as it clears any epidermal melanin
You're not from the states are you?
I understand that but it has nothing to do with what I was saying.
Our SOP did and as far as I know still allows dark wash on shanks for the black variety.
My point was that blacks are hard to find period. Some I've heard about also breed in Minorca etc just to improve them and increase gene pool.
White Leghorns are everywhere. If they were carrying extended black genes it seems we'd have more blacks around and a larger gene pool.
It would be easy to breed out the dominate white genes.
 
Color gurus, what do you think this color pattern is?

Would Dominant White do something like this? The hackles are golden so I didn't think it'd be Dominant White, though the tail and wing makes it look that way.

I don't know anything about his background. I was at a swap, saw him in a cage, and without thinking about it I brought him home. Forgive his comb in the picture - it was covered in dried blood. He had obviously been sharing a pen with someone who didn't like him.

I tried playing around in the chicken genetics calculator but couldn't find a combo that looked right.
sexlink rooster.
 
He has dominant white and red columbian. Not a sexlink, but may have RIR and white leghorn in him (same breeds as typically used to create RSLs).
 
It's not a red sex link rooster.
The whole idea behind red sex links is breeding a gold based rooster to a silver based hen so the female offspring will be gold based and the male offspring won't.
That rooster has the same look as a red sex link hen which is completely wrong for a RSL rooster. How well would you think sexing them as chicks go?
Maybe it's a feather sexing cross and not a color? Just a thought, but I don't know what breeds are fast or slow
 

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