Color help

[Fallenone05]

Bump!

 

[Fallenone05]

Bump

 

[NatJ]

Is this lil guy Cuckoo?

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Yes

 

[Fallenone05]

Yes

Thank you!

 

[Fallenone05]

Is this little white one a really not splashy splash? Her legs are pink and she has one or two black spots.

 

[NatJ]

Is this little white one a really not splashy splash? Her legs are pink and she has one or two black spots.

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I think she is more likely to be genetically black, turned white by the gene Dominant White, which is a bit leaky when a chicken has only one copy of the gene.

(The splashes are also genetically black, but they have two copies of the blue gene turning the black into splash. I just don't think it could make a bird as thoroughly white as this one.)

 

[Fallenone05]

I think she is more likely to be genetically black, turned white by the gene Dominant White, which is a bit leaky when a chicken has only one copy of the gene.

(The splashes are also genetically black, but they have two copies of the blue gene turning the black into splash. I just don't think it could make a bird as thoroughly white as this one.)

Thank you!

It honestly looks like they've run out of ink. I have one with lots of splash, one kind of splash, and then this lil lady.

 

[NatJ]

Thank you!

It honestly looks like they've run out of ink. I have one with lots of splash, one kind of splash, and then this lil lady.

Running out of ink is a pretty good description The blue/splash gene does mess up something about the process that makes the "ink" (black pigment), and the Dominant White gene does too.

 

[Fallenone05]

Is this black one laced, or an alternative Version of Cuckoo? Her brother beside her is definitely Cuckoo but I'm having a hard time with her. It looks like she's barred on her neck but it turns into lacing?

 

[NatJ]

Is this black one laced, or an alternative Version of Cuckoo? Her brother beside her is definitely Cuckoo but I'm having a hard time with her. It looks like she's barred on her neck but it turns into lacing?

Hmm. I see why you are confused. She might actually be both.

The barring gene (causes barred, crele, or cuckoo) puts white bars across whatever other pattern a chicken has. So a chicken can have lacing or some other pattern, and then white barring over that. That can give some really odd-looking effects sometimes.