Color genetics thread.

[skgray]

Any input on the phenotype/possible genotype of these possibly full siblings? Thanks!
Cockerel

White pullet

Silver pullet

Have another cockerel that's almost the same color as the above and an orangish? pullet that has black patterning. I will get pics of those also.
Edit: and will get pics up of the rooster, hopefully the hen also, that produced these

 

[skgray]

Here's the rooster

Sorry all the pics aren't good.

 

[Austinspoultry]

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[tao chick]

Wheaten Ameraucana roo over Black Ameraucana hen = all black chicks? So far that's how my hatches have turned out.

 

[junebuggena]

Wheaten Ameraucana roo over Black Ameraucana hen = all black chicks? So far that's how my hatches have turned out.

The males will develop red leakage as they mature, but yes, black is dominant over the wheaten pattern.

 

[Kev]

if you are trying for a line of blacks, even if the pullets are solid black, they likely are genetically leaky and will throw sons with leakage even if bred with a black rooster. Basically it is typical for roosters to show more leakage than hens.

 

[tao chick]

if you are trying for a line of blacks, even if the pullets are solid black, they likely are genetically leaky and will throw sons with leakage even if bred with a black rooster.  Basically it is typical for roosters to show more leakage than hens.

I'm definitely not aiming for pure Ameraucana anything. I don't have any matching pairs in my Easter Egger/ Olive Egger group. All the parents are pure (Wheaten Ameraucana, CCL, Welsummer, BCM, and Black (split to lav) Ameraucana) but the offspring are not intended to be pure looking. I didn't realize black was dominant over wheaten until now. Thanks to both of you for the info on leakage. I couldn't remember how it would work out.
So the leakage is where the center of the feather is sort of a different color? Or does it present like splash?

 

[AmandaMBG]

Question: I know if you cross a black Roo over a barred female you get sex linked chicks with black females and barred males. Now if you cross another color Roo like a buff or something like that will you get the same coloring? Black females and barred males that are black and white barred or will they have some other colors in the barring?

 

[junebuggena]

Question: I know if you cross a black Roo over a barred female you get sex linked chicks with black females and barred males. Now if you cross another color Roo like a buff or something like that will you get the same coloring? Black females and barred males that are black and white barred or will they have some other colors in the barring?

Same thing. The color of the rooster matters very little when it comes to sexlinking. The extended black pattern gene of the barred mothers is dominant over just about everything. As long as the rooster isn't barred and isn't dominant white, the chicks will be sexlinked.

 

[AmandaMBG]

Will the barring always come out black or will the coloring if the father show?

Same thing. The color of the rooster matters very little when it comes to sexlinking. The extended black pattern gene of the barred mothers is dominant over just about everything. As long as the rooster isn't barred and isn't dominant white, the chicks will be sexlinked.