Color genetics thread.

[junebuggena]

What would crossing a partridge cochin bantam to a silver penciled cochin bantam produce? Someplace I read & don't recall where that it would result in both patterns?

These are my 2 girls & my boy. All are 6 months. I'm not planning on letting any hatching happen before a year old. But I want to learn. I know they aren't the best, but it's what I've got so I can learn & develop from them.

Thanks! I've several cockerels & need to narrow down. I've a birchen, blue, black & white Cochin bantams too. Plus bantam buff Brahma & 3 oegb bantams. Those are all the same age. An older d'uccle-Cochin mix roo that's a project mille Fleur. Also for cresteds crevecoeur, white crested black, & white crested red laced polish. I do have more girls. Somehow I've ended up with rare-not common varities. Which I'm liking so that makes it harder to cull!

Chicks will be sexlinked. Males will feather in black and white, like their mother, but develop red leakage as they mature. Females will be gold partridge.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

How did I get this color from the two below???? It doesn't look like blue, wheaten or even red to me.

That chick is WAY TOO CUTE! Those puffy cheeks!!! It looks a lot like a Mille Fluer D'Uccle/ buff brahma cross chick that I hatched out, was the color of a buff brahma but shaped like a D'Uccle,

(It's the one on the left, the one on the right is a buff brahma)

And he grew up to look like this

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

Chicks will be sexlinked. Males will feather in black and white, like their mother, but develop red leakage as they mature. Females will be gold partridge.

Wow. If the parents were reversed would that reverse the offspring? I'm thinking it wouldn't. That's due to the gold over silver right?

 

[junebuggena]

Wow. If the parents were reversed would that reverse the offspring? I'm thinking it wouldn't. That's due to the gold over silver right?

It does not work in reverse. The sexlinking is due to the fact that silver is dominant over gold, and a silver hen can only pass her silver gene to her male chicks. A silver male can pass it to both male and female chicks.

 

[Chicken5555]

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Oh, he is a handsome Rooster! Thank you so much for sharing.

 

[bunsnpupsnchick]

It does not work in reverse. The sexlinking is due to the fact that silver is dominant over gold, and a silver hen can only pass her silver gene to her male chicks. A silver male can pass it to both male and female chicks.

thank you. I was half there with getting it.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

Oh, he is a handsome Rooster! Thank you so much for sharing.

Thanks! You're welcome! You're chick is sooooooo much fluffier!

 

[Sussex123]

I was wondering if anybody know anything about large breeds. I have light, coronation, buff, silver, platinum Sussex and the roosters are huge and I was wondering how many hens to a rooster I should have because one breeder I got a few chicks from only had about 1 rooster to 4-5 hens. I have a coop that can fit 30 hens but I do not know will the roosters fight if I only have 6 roosters to 30 hens. I was planing only to have 1 rooster to 10 hens because I thought that was the ratio.

 

[junebuggena]

I was wondering if anybody know anything about large breeds. I have light, coronation, buff, silver, platinum Sussex and the roosters are huge and I was wondering how many hens to a rooster I should have because one breeder I got a few chicks from only had about 1 rooster to 4-5 hens. I have a coop that can fit 30 hens but I do not know will the roosters fight if I only have 6 roosters to 30 hens. I was planing only to have 1 rooster to 10 hens because I thought that was the ratio.

What is your purpose for keeping any roosters at all? If you want to produce pure birds, you are going to have to have separate housing for each variety that you have. The general rule of thumb is 10 hens per rooster, but it's really more to do with the individual rooster's temperament. Some are fine with just a few hens, some need at least 15.

 

[Sussex123]

I have 3 coops. I am keeping buff in 1 coop. Light in another coop and platinum, coronation, and silver in the other. I am keep the platinum, coronation, and silver hens with silver roosters to keep the colour in the hens.