Genetics of a calico princess

[Painted Calls]

You bred a calico princess to a blue with gold leakage and produced a blue with copper leakage and you're asking where the chicks color came from if not from the CP mom?
@Overo Mare help this one.

LOL you're extra cute today.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She’s getting her coloring from the father.

I know, but she still needs a black gene from mom too, doesn't she?

 

[The Moonshiner]

I know, but she still needs a black gene from mom too, doesn't she?

No

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I know, but she still needs a black gene from mom too, doesn't she?

No, black is dominant, only one gene is needed.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

No, black is dominant, only one gene is needed.

But she's blue, not black

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

But she's blue, not black

Blue is just black with a dilution gene.

 

[NatJ]

I know, but she still needs a black gene from mom too, doesn't she?

It depends on which "black" gene you're talking about. I can think of at least three that might be relevant:

The mother probably has Dominant White (turns black into white.) The daughter needs to get "black" (not-Dominant-White) from both parents, or else she would be white.

If the daughter has E (Extended Black, which makes a chicken have mostly black feathers), it only needs to come from one parent (the father). Since the mother has a lot of red or gold, she clearly does not have E (Extended Black).

To turn the black into blue, the daughter needs one copy of blue (probably from her father). Then she needs one copy of "black" (not-blue) from the other parent (probably the mother.)

I know they have black, I bred my girl to a mix I know the background of and got a solid blue girl with copper necklacing.

If you mean that your Calico Princess hen has one copy of the Dominant White gene, and one copy of not-Dominant-White, then I agree that her daughter proves that very nicely.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It depends on which "black" gene you're talking about. I can think of at least three that might be relevant:

The mother probably has Dominant White (turns black into white.) The daughter needs to get "black" (not-Dominant-White) from both parents, or else she would be white.

If the daughter has E (Extended Black, which makes a chicken have mostly black feathers), it only needs to come from one parent (the father). Since the mother has a lot of red or gold, she clearly does not have E (Extended Black).

To turn the black into blue, the daughter needs one copy of blue (probably from her father). Then she needs one copy of "black" (not-blue) from the other parent (probably the mother.)



If you mean that your Calico Princess hen has one copy of the Dominant White gene, and one copy of not-Dominant-White, then I agree that her daughter proves that very nicely.

Blue X 1 copy of Dominant White results.

Just thought a picture with percentages will be useful.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Why would a CP hen probably have dominate white?

 

[NatJ]

Why would a CP hen probably have dominate white?

Because someone showed a photo of a Calico Princess hen with a white tail and no black in sight. So I assumed that one had Dominant White.

And when @JacinLarkwell was puzzled about getting a blue daughter from a Calico Princess hen x blue rooster, I assumed their Calico Princess must have had Dominant White or else there would be no puzzle at all (genetically speaking).