Color genetics thread.

[Chicken5555]

Update - the chicks are 2 weeks old now. One person suggested that the moms are silver based, and that the chicks are silver based males. Another person suggested their coloring could be because the father is wheaten colored. I wonder if they are old enough to figure out the genetics of the two chicks? Thanks.

two possible moms..... half Splash Ameraucana half Marans (variety, unsure)

dad, full blooded Wheaten Ameraucana


Chick number 1



Chick number 2

 

[Channel WHEN]

I've been trying to makes heads or tails of chicken genetics for half a year and I get still get thrown for a loop on most of my birds! LOL

Hey, we're from the same state! I'm sort of close to Myrtle Beach, where about are you?

I'm in northren Greenville, not too far from Ceaser's Head.

 

[Chicken5555]

Dad, full blooded Wheaten Ameraucana (champion bloodlines)

Mother, Splash Ameraucana over splash Marans (according to person I got her from)



I watched the chicken lay the egg that this chick hatched from and labeled it with her name. I am sure, without a doubt, that the splash chicken is the mother of this chick. How is this coloring possible? The mother is genetically black with two copies of dilute, so the chick should have been blue like some that hatched from a blue hen's eggs, shouldn't it?

day old

2 weeks old

 

[Chicken5555]

I'm in northren Greenville, not too far from Ceaser's Head.

That area is just gorgeous. I hope you're safe from all the fires.

 

[junebuggena]

Dad, full blooded Wheaten Ameraucana (champion bloodlines)

Mother, Splash Ameraucana over splash Marans (according to person I got her from)



I watched the chicken lay the egg that this chick hatched from and labeled it with her name. I am sure, without a doubt, that the splash chicken is the mother of this chick. How is this coloring possible? The mother is genetically black with two copies of dilute, so the chick should have been blue like some that hatched from a blue hen's eggs, shouldn't it?

day old

2 weeks old

The hen is not pure for Extended Black pattern. Some breeders have used Black lines to improve the Silver variety. Could be that what looked like a Black, was carrying Silver, and got used in a Blue/Black/Splash line. The black pattern genes, being so dominant, could have hid the silver genes for generations.

 

[Channel WHEN]

That area is just gorgeous. I hope you're safe from all the fires.

Lucky for us it's been raining buckets the past two days with more to come over the weekend.
It didn't come soon enough for the next county over though. My parents condo burnt to the ground
along with the rest of Gatliburg so we're just thankful that none if it spread into Greenville.
Before the rain came the fields were just dry kindling.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

What would I get if I bred this blue Cochin rooster with gold leakage:

With this hen who's mom was a mottled Cochin bantam and her dad was a buff brahma bantam. She has green eyes and orange around her throat.

 

[junebuggena]

What would I get if I bred this blue Cochin rooster with gold leakage:


With this hen who's mom was a mottled Cochin bantam and her dad was a buff brahma bantam. She has green eyes and orange around her throat.

Black or Blue chicks. Some may have gold/red leakage.

 

[Amy King Hanson]

Are these Banties wheaton?

 

[junebuggena]

Are these Banties wheaton?

The hen is wheaten. The cockerel looks more like a mixed color bird or a poor quality gold laced.