Do Columbian Wyandotte chicks look like Barred Rocks?

[Krys109uk]

Interesting. I see what you're saying.
Have you been investigating other columbian type restrictors?
It would be interesting to hear your findings.
I've been looking into some undercolour variations in a few of my birds. I'm still at the point of documenting results. I doubt it's anything that others don't already know, just not everything is written in books.
Broadly speaking I associate the darker down colour to eb birds (&, I think, e+) but it seems more consistent in females. The melanised eb blacks have the white down at the base of tail.....then I have a blue (almost) partridge male which has white at the base of his tail. He ought to be eb. His grandfather was E. Is this white base of tail usual in other eb males apart from eb blacks/blues etc?
Generally I was meaning white undercolour specific to silver columbian which are wheaten. I hadn't really thought about whether red/gold wheaten birds had white or buff undercolour in that instance.

 

[tadkerson]

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Krys,

No, I have not come across any new columbian like restrictors. Robert Smyth Jr. is convinced that there are different columbian restrictors. I have worked with Co, Mh and Db and they were always predictable. Gold wheatens should be the only birds with a cream/buff/ red under color. The other E locus alleles should be white to slate gray or black depending on the genotype.

The white at the base of the tail is typical of some birds ( red jungle fowl) and like you said black eb birds (I had some a few years back).

One thing I have noticed about my silver wheaten (silver rhode island) is that the hackle black is not very heavy. They carry sex linked barring. They look like delawares but I know they are not because I did not buy them I created them from rhode island red and an initial cross of a barred rock ( took me 3 years).

Tim