Color genetics thread.

[Shadow920]

also i have this a New Hampshire Red Rooster,

who i want to breed with this, an unknown breed of hen unless anyone can tell me what she is at a glance.

next spring i want to breed them. anyone know what i'll get?

 

[Saris]

Did I get this right?

 

[jerryse]

so when i bred this,

a white and i guess lemon?, japanese bantam
with this

gold laced sebright, i got these.

so what would happen if i bred the same rooster with a silver sebright?

Your rooster is dominant white with autosomal red showing . Dominant white removes black better than red/gold . This is the combo for white laced buff Seabright which already exist .

With silver Seabright hen and that rooster . Mostly white . Probably red/lemon in the wing on males .

 

[Shadow920]

Your rooster is dominant white with autosomal red showing . Dominant white removes black better than red/gold . This is the combo for white laced buff Seabright which already exist .

With silver Seabright hen and that rooster . Mostly white . Probably red/lemon in the wing on males .

cool thanks. so how did my roos get to be so white in this batch? my hen s got all the color but my rooster are a brighter white than their father who has a gold tint when he's in the sun and they have black streaks. the rooster chicks do

 

[Shadow920]

also what is autosomal red. if i'm am asking stupid questions i'm sorry. i only got into chickens 2 years ago because of my mom, and for one year of that time i was with my roos mostly because my dogs killed my hens. so this is the first time i have anything to work with.

 

[lilmillefleur]

I think its like the different types of colors in the extension gene...or is it like red leakage

 

[Wappoke]

I understand all the genetics and phenotypic expression. I just makes no sense (for me) to call a silver birchen bird golden even if it is hybrid/heterozygous at the silver locus. I guess it would be ok if the line produced genetically silver females that were golden also. I have a hypothesis that not all alleles at the silver locus are the same ( different base pairing in the DNA) so you get a silver allele that is leaky (let some red pigments show) and others prevent the expression of red pigment. Or it could be other genetic factors that are linked to the leaky allele.

 

[jerryse]

also what is autosomal red. if i'm am asking stupid questions i'm sorry. i only got into chickens 2 years ago because of my mom, and for one year of that time i was with my roos mostly because my dogs killed my hens. so this is the first time i have anything to work with.

Autosomal red is different than sex linked red . Different location .

Not sure why you got the results you did . Must be other genes at work . Possibly your rooster is carrying silver and gold or maybe just gold . Only way the pullets could have gold . The cockerels should have inherited gold from the hen . So something is suppressing the gold in the cockerels .

Tried to answer last night but this sight was not working well with my computer .

 

[morbius18]

The whitish hen has dominant white.   It turns black areas to white...  so if you breed her to a black or mostly black rooster(which is what your golden cuckoo is).. you are bound to get what are essentially black chicks.. which dominant white turned to white.  Presto, white downed chick.

if she is not pure for dominant white, half of her chicks will come like the colored ones and half white/cream colored.

A few more pics of the chick. Would it be considered a splash or a white with leakage?

 

[Shadow920]

Autosomal red is different than sex linked red . Different location .

Not sure why you got the results you did . Must be other genes at work . Possibly your rooster is carrying silver and gold or maybe just gold . Only way the pullets could have gold . The cockerels should have inherited gold from the hen . So something is suppressing the gold in the cockerels .

Tried to answer last night but this sight was not working well with my computer .

are there any colors i could breed him with to figure out what else he has in him. he's a japanese bantam who clearly has other colors. he was a rescue. wandered into my yard one day. so i know nothing of his genetics.