Color question...

AbL

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Apr 18, 2024
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I collected fertile eggs from some of my new hens and incubated them. I don't know the rooster, just the hens. I got three funny colored cream/buff colored and a young black hen with distinct light brown lacing in the neck and breast feathers. Any guess to their genetic origine is welcome. The four possible mothers are the one on the left (yellow mottled), the black and the chocolate in the back.

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The chicks in questions are
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1 very light cream colored pullet, maybe mottled,

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1 pullet with buff breast and neck but cream/buff in the wings and tail, this one seems to have a slight mottled the darker feathers

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1 pullet like a splash, just in cream and buff/brown

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1 pullet black, but the neck and brastfeathers have a light brown shaft and are brown laced, she has also light brown ear patches (the other blacks are black..)

the photos are not that good, they keep moving all the time ;)
but maybe you can telle me where the cream color comes from? db, ig, etc?
 
I think your hens are likely mottled white tailed buff. e^Wh/e^WhDb/DbMo/MoI/I
I believe the cream color comes from two copies of dominant white. Dominant white can dilute gold a lot in its homozygous form.
I could be wrong, though.
@nicalandia thoughts?
 
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I just realized those are Japanese which are always Db. The hens are just more richly colored than I am used to.
 
I think your hens are likely mottled white tailed buff.
I believe the cream color comes from two copies of dominant white. Dominant white can dilute gold a lot in its homozygous form.
I could be wrong, though.
@nicalandia thoughts?
You think originally they are porcelaine reds/yellows with dominante white? hence the black mottled and black tail turned white? Do you know if you can get salmon/wheaten mottled? Cause one of the hens has the neck much more orange, while the second one is even colored light yellow.
But the chicks are more buff splash than mottled, (the mottles are not very distant or the ground color to light to see.
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