Genetic color Question.

[Chris09]

Ok I need some help on this young roosters color/ genetic make up.
He has lots of color dark color but it is color..
The dam is a Black Americam Game and the sire is a Gold Duckwing.

Thanks
Chris

 

[Krys109uk]

How old is he? I am not familiar with American game. What colour of legs did his dam have?

 

[Chris09]

He is about 8 week old and the Dams legs are black and I beleve the bottom of her feet are white....

Chris

 

[Krys109uk]

Well I can only guess. I'd have expected him to be black which he clearly isn't. It's a bit young to tell. He looks e+ like his sire doesn't he?
Is gold duckwing, to you, like the bird you posted in this thread?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=226047
Or do you mean wild type e+ bird? Confusion of names.

 

[Chris09]

Krys:
Im sorry I for got about that.. Yes like the bird in that post..

Chris

 

[Krys109uk]

Ah .....That bird was silver with mahogany, I think. So your bird will most probably have inherited at least one of each of those genes. One would probably expect the black to have been gold by default, so he could be split silver/gold, you ought to be better able to tell that as he matures. If his mother carried silver then he'd be 'pure' for silver. I can't tell which genes his mother had at the e-locus. I'd guess that she might have been split E/? herself? If she had been an eb black I'd have expected her to have white, yellow legs, grey or willow legs. BTW what colour are his legs?

 

[Chris09]

Krys:
Thanks for your help and I think you are right. Last night I made a phone call to the guy I got the Sire bird off of and he said that he is out of a mating of a Black Breasted Red rooster and a Silver Duckwing Hen... Like you said we can tell better as he gets older. I use theses birds for free range egg layer in my opion there are no better range egg layer.

Chris

 

[Krys109uk]

Ah so the sire isn't genetically the same as the bird in that picture.. If the sire's breeder said the sire was what I know as a golden duckwing (i.e. het gold/silver) then your chick has inherited the silver & he won't have inherited any mahogany as it won't have been there. There is an autosomal red there but I doubt it would be mahogany.
It will be interesting to watch him grow on.