Color genetics thread.

[Chicken5555]

@moving coops


I also have three blue hens that were crossed with my wheaten rooster. All of their children have been either black or blue with red edging. Not sure yet how they'll feather out.

 

[Chicken5555]

This chick is from a different splash hen and the same rooster as the other chick. Apparently, the hen this chick is from only has one copy of black also, but two copies of blue to make her splash.

 

[moving coops]

Okay so what your saying when you said you expected it to be black with one copy then later you expected it to be blue! You really meant that when you said black with one copy of blue that you are talking a blue chick already as the one copy of blue dilutes the black?

 

[moving coops]

Okay now if I am ctossing my BLRW Roo or BLRW Splash Roo with my white Wyandottes which will get my the black or blue Wyandottes with no lacing!

Then if I cross those blue chicks or blacks chicks to each other then I will be just in the regular blue, black or splash gene predictions? Or will the lacing come back out from their background?

Also if I cross those blue or back chicks back to the BLRW or The splash again do I treat them just like the solid blue black splash genetics. Or again will the back genes of lacing from the chicks and the lacing in the one you are ctossing them back to again try to reappear!

Just interesting if I can have true blues or blacks appearing!

Hopes this makes sense how I typed this out!

 

[moving coops]

So your wheaten coloring is showing up when you did not expect it too?

 

[moving coops]

so splashes can have two black genes?

 

[Chicken5555]

Okay so what your saying when you said you expected it to be black with one copy then later you expected it to be blue! You really meant that when you said black with one copy of blue that you are talking a blue chick already as the one copy of blue dilutes the black?

I was expecting it to be blue, which is made from any number of black + one blue

Okay now if I am ctossing my BLRW Roo or BLRW Splash Roo with my white Wyandottes which will get my the black or blue Wyandottes with no lacing!

Then if I cross those blue chicks or blacks chicks to each other then I will be just in the regular blue, black or splash gene predictions? Or will the lacing come back out from their background?

Also if I cross those blue or back chicks back to the BLRW or The splash again do I treat them just like the solid blue black splash genetics. Or again will the back genes of lacing from the chicks and the lacing in the one you are ctossing them back to again try to reappear!

Just interesting if I can have true blues or blacks appearing!

Hopes this makes sense how I typed this out!

I don't know as much about lacing, sorry I can't help with this one.

Do your wheaten coloring is showing up when you did not expect it too?

Wheaten needs 2 copies (one from each parent) to be wheaten. None of my easter egger girls has wheaten, so I won't get any surprise wheaten chicks from them and my rooster. What I'm seeing instead is surprise red (also called gold) because red is dominant over wheaten.

 

[moving coops]

And the red is hidden in your black?

 

[Chicken5555]

so splashes can have two black genes?

Yes, exactly. black is the color, blue is the gene that changes the color. The best splashes have two copies of black.

 

[Chicken5555]

And the red is hidden in your black?

That's right. Black hides red.