colors by genetics?

[Livinwright Farm]

I used to put what the abbrv.'s meant, but primarily got responses of, "we know"... Guess I will go back to posting what they mean.

sorry for the confusion.

 

[Katy]

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It just didn't register what I was reading...not your fault.

 

[RAREROO]

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Oops...sorry, guess my eyes aren't working this morning.

I made a comment on a thread a few days back about the use of abbreviations leading to some confussion, at least on my part. Apparently my point of view was not shared by many, and at least one moderator. This one had me scratching my head too, but then again, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Agreed, Its like some of the people who are selling olive eggers now are titling there auctions as something like 12+ OE eggs and when I see the abbreviations OE, I think Old English game bantams. So putting the abbreviations as the titles can lead to confusion and may cost them buyer if a person misinterperates what is being sold. But thats not what this thread is about.

So to the OP, if you are wanting to breed with those two EE hens, they are carrying Dominant white and I dont see any black spots so I'm guessing they may be Homozygous for dom white so if you were to breed them to the Slash laced roo, I more or less buff laced chicks or maybe just pretty close to the same color as the mom. And assuming that shes masking black under the dom white, then here chicks would be masking blue under their white from having a splash father. And if he happens to only be heterozygous for dom white then half of the chicks would be visually blue laced gold and and the other half would be the buff laced color masking blue under the white.

And breeding him the the barred rock hens you would get sexlinks with the pullets being blue and the roos being blue barred. They should also have rose combs.

Where there any other hens you were wanting to use or just the EEs and BR ?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

I am not sure if this will help you, it is a chicken color calculator http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator


You will need your rooster's color and the color of your hens.

 

[RAREROO]

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It wouldnt help with the EE hens as they dont really have a set pattern to go by.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Oops...sorry, guess my eyes aren't working this morning.

That's OK Katy,
I thought the OP meant Silver Laced Red Wyandotte.

Chris

That was my first thought, casuing me to do a double take as red would be gold, not silver, then I realized the bird is SPLASH laced and figured it out...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It wouldnt help with the EE hens as they dont really have a set pattern to go by.

You can alter the individual genes to fit the bird. While EEs are not normally bred for specific recognised colour varieties, they DO have the same genes as all chickens, and to a certain extent, they can be analysed to determine the likely genes they carry.

 

[xyresicchick]

okay you're breeding buff to slrw? and a barred rock?

to buff - you would get blue patterned buff (half spangled)

to barred- blue barred, black barred, solid blue, and solid black

 

[Livinwright Farm]

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Thank you for this valuable information. I am not entirely sure what the difference is between homozygous and heterozygous... but okay!

I think I will be pairing up the roo with some of the nicely patterned Barred Rocks!! I would love to have blue hens!!

 

[RAREROO]

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It wouldnt be just breeding "buff" they kinda look buff but its not like Buff Orps. its actually gold as in the inverse to sexlinked silver, and they have dominant white where they would normally have black markings like most EEs have. So you have to that into account and the dominant white factor.