Color genetics thread.

[summerb123]

The male is a white-tailed red phenotype and the female is as black breasted red. If you cross the two you will get black tailed red and white tailed red offspring. The male offspring will not be completely restricted, but with red plumage similar to the male parent; some male offspring will have white tails and others will have black tails. The female offspring will have a different coloration than the leghorn hen. The females will have a plumage color similar to a red leghorn but with black stippling on the back. Some females will look similar to a red pyle but with more red in the plumage.

The chicks that hatch a redish white down color with some back markings are the white tailed reds, the chicks that hatch with a redish down color with some back markings are the black tailed reds. The down color is dependent on the E locus carried by the male, so the down color could be different.

I am assuming the male is carrying certain genes and that is what I am basing my predictions on.

thanks Wappoke!

 

[summerb123]

what about these 2 (once she gets older)
Frizzle Polish rooster (a wet rooster lol)

and Easter Egger pullet

 

[junebuggena]

what about these 2 (once she gets older)
Frizzle Polish rooster (a wet rooster lol)

and Easter Egger pullet

The crest is dominant, so all will be crested, but not likely as full as their father. The frizzling is dominant, but he likely only has a single copy of that gene. About 50% will inherit it. The mottling is recessive, so none of the chicks will express that trait. The pullet is Splash. Taking into consideration that the rooster is likely extended black, I would expect all chicks to be Blue. Males will likely develop red leakage as they mature.

 

[junebuggena]

You will also get some very funky combs.

 

[morbius18]

That looks like a dominant white bird and it also has to be blue. Dominant white does not work on red pigments- so some red is being expressed in the feathers. Your male is dominant white. It is not unusual for the feathers of some white birds to show some yellow as the feathers wear. 

Your white male carries only one dominant white gene. It is not unusual for a black bird to show red or white. 

I've also got recessive white Golden Cuckoo Marans that also have gold leakage similar to that as well. I know that dominant and recessive are 2 different things.

 

[summerb123]

The crest is dominant, so all will be crested, but not likely as full as their father. The frizzling is dominant, but he likely only has a single copy of that gene. About 50% will inherit it. The mottling is recessive, so none of the chicks will express that trait. The pullet is Splash. Taking into consideration that the rooster is likely extended black, I would expect all chicks to be Blue. Males will likely develop red leakage as they mature.

You will also get some very funky combs.

yeah! they are gonna be some funky looking chicks!

 

[Wappoke]

I've also got recessive white Golden Cuckoo Marans that also have gold leakage similar to that as well. I know that dominant and recessive are 2 different things.

if your bird is recessive white wouldn't the bird be a white marans?????

 

[morbius18]

if your bird is recessive white wouldn't the bird be a white marans?????   

Phenotype would be a white marans, genotype would be a golden cuckoo with recessive white.

My F0 Golden cuckoo marans rooster carried recessive white. Last year I would get a white 'sport' or two from some hatches. I haven't bred it out yet, as I was wanting to work with a few whites. But the gold gene was giving some leakage on the males.

I don't have any pics of roosters, but here is a hen I kept with her barred sisters:

And her with her brother that I test mated to see if he carried the recessive gene:

 

[Berryblue]

Just wondering what causes the white round the neck (hackles? ) instead of being a solid black. Thanks for all the questions you guys have answered. Slowly getting to know genetics

 

[Wappoke]

Just wondering what causes the white round the neck (hackles? ) instead of being a solid black. Thanks for all the questions you guys have answered. Slowly getting to know genetics

the white in the hackles is due to sex-linked silver. Your bird appears to be extended black at the E locus and is missing the melanotic gene which would cover the white in your bird.