Comb questions

[NatJ]

I was looking through my old photos and found one of my gold spangled hen who passed away last year. She was fully golden except one single feather on her wing. It wasn’t visible unless she flapped it. I think it appeared after her molt. Is this a sign that her mom was maybe silver?

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I doubt it, but I don't see that it would make much difference either way. The gold/silver gene cannot be passed from a mother to her daughter.

I've seen black chickens have an occasional bit of white in their wing feathers. I would guess this is the same kind of thing, especially given the black in some of the nearby feathers.

 

[CashewVulture]

I doubt it, but I don't see that it would make much difference either way. The gold/silver gene cannot be passed from a mother to her daughter.

I've seen black chickens have an occasional bit of white in their wing feathers. I would guess this is the same kind of thing, especially given the black in some of the nearby feathers.

My bad
I know now how silver and gold genes work. I just wondered how the white could’ve possibly gotten there.

But thanks for the answer

 

[Amer]

Sometimes birds just stop producing pigment in a feather. It could just be an error in that molt to be corrected in the next molt or it could be like going grey where more feathers also turn white later on. There does seem to be a genetic component, my line of quail d'Anvers is prone to having white feather tips sometimes.