color genetics question

[SteveH]

I've got several chicks this color by a White Ameraucana over Speckled Sussex pullets . Will they loose the spangleing with their adult feathers ? This chick is 13 days old [ sorry about the flash blur ] .

 

[RAREROO]

Cool Your White is probably masking Wheaten. But yes, Het. Mottled Chicks usually have some mottling as juvenilles but it usually molts out after a few months.

 

[SteveH]

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Thanks Clint . TBH his genetics have me totally guessing , but he's probably not wheaten under the white . He threw all whites in adult plummage on white Ameraucana , but they were hatched as yellow , smokey , or blue . On a cross with the typical patterned EE , one hatched solid blue and stayed blue , the other hatched brown chipmunk and is feathering white with blue and red patterning . This hatch , out of SSs and GLWs , most are solid blue or black , a blue chocolate hatchling is feathering red and blue patterned , and all the brown chipmunks are now feathering with the spangles .

ETA : I was told that on frizzled white Cochins , he produced half solid whites , half solid blues . The guy had some puzzling genes LOL

 

[kathyinmo]

So, Steve, you got some surprises from your hatch, huh? Funny how those genes work, isn't it?

 

[chicken burger]

my cohin/silky cross OEG as a chick...

5 months old now.....

 

[SteveH]

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Yes , and the more I learn about color genetics , the more I learn there is more to learn .

One of the things about Ameraucanas I'm learning is that the different varieties originated from several different breeders useing different breeds and colors to come up with that bird that meets the SOP for any certain variety , and later breeders have added more on the down low ; its anybody's guess what's lurking behind those visible colors today .