Discussing details of mottled chicken genetics

[MysteryChicken]

Here's Blue, the OEGB/Phoenix cross. He recently grew back his tail, it was pulled out when he got into a tussle.

He has dark speckles on his legs like a mottled bird.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here's Blue, the OEGB/Phoenix cross. He recently grew back his tail, it was pulled out when he got into a tussle.
View attachment 2417163He has dark speckles on his legs like a mottled bird.
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Do you think he carries mottling?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's PipSqueak the Blue Exchequer Japanese Bantam.
She's almost done molting.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Do you think he carries mottling?

I was told he could be.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I was told he could be.

He is a nice OEGB mix, but if it’s possible that he carries mottling, then the test wouldn’t work. That’s because his offspring could be mottled, whether or not the d’uccle carries a dominant mottling gene.

 

[MysteryChicken]

He is a nice OEGB mix, but if it’s possible that he carries mottling, then the test wouldn’t work. That’s because his offspring could be mottled, whether or not the d’uccle carries a dominant mottling gene.

I don't have any gold roosters, & he's the only one who has gold in the bantam coop besides my sister's partridge silkie rooster. He's Birchen based. And the blue partridge silkie rooster.

I didn't get new pictures of him yet, but he has more color now.

 

[MysteryChicken]

My black silkie has some gold leakage in his hackles, but he's mostly black.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I don't have any gold roosters, & he's the only one who has gold in the bantam coop besides my sister's partridge silkie rooster. He's Birchen based. And the blue partridge silkie rooster.View attachment 2417187I didn't get new pictures of him yet, but he has more color now.

Those two would work. Unless they’re mottled silkie color crosses.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Those two would work. Unless they’re mottled silkie color crosses.

They came from a breeder, & she doesn't have mottled silkies.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here's PipSqueak the Blue Exchequer Japanese Bantam.
She's almost done molting.
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This hen would work perfectly. She has really nice mottling. Though she isn’t a pure Japanese bantam, due to her pink legs.