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Black X white (dominant) = white or white with black specks in the feathers and or whole black feathers
Black X recessive white = a black bird or basically a black bird but males and females may leak red or silver (white) through the anterior end of the bird- white or red could show in the neck hackles, back and wing bows of the male, females leak red or silver in head, neck hackles and breast- the color that leaks and if it leaks depends on the genes found at the silver locus ( a sex linked gene) and E locus on the bird
Female birds can be silver or gold at the silver locus and pass the gene on to their sons. The father can have two silver or a silver and a gold or two gold genes at the silver locus. He gives a one gene to each daughter and one gene to each son.
Black X splash = all blue offspring
Black are usually extended black and melanotic or E/E, Ml/Ml (birds that have black shanks and feet)
Splash are usually E/E, Ml/Ml Bl/Bl they have two of the blue genes (Bl) therefore they are splash, the two blue genes dilute the black to the splash color.
A blue bird is E/E, Ml/Ml Bl/bl+ and only has one blue gene- one blue gene dilutes the black to a blue color.
The fibromelanotic gene Fm has to work with another gene called dermal melanin id+ to make the skin of a bird black. The Fm gene by itself will not make the skin black. The id+ gene is sex linked (found on a Z sex chromosome)and the Fm gene is autosomal ( not found on a sex chromosome). Silkies are a good example of the black skin thing.
Tim
