Genetics of my BYM

[GrymGhoul]

Howdy all,

I just hatched my first chick out from my flock. The dad is an American Breese x (photo 1). I'm not sure what you'd label his color as.

Chick hatched from a brown egg. I have a small grip of brown layers. A black star, a production red, two golden comets, a chocolate and buff orpington.

How did I get a yellow chick? I suspect the egg came from one of my orpingtons, could be wrong. Sorry if its an elementary question lol

Incubator photo of chick. Will take more when he's more downy.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Howdy all,

I just hatched my first chick out from my flock. The dad is an American Breese x (photo 1). I'm not sure what you'd label his color as.

Chick hatched from a brown egg. I have a small grip of brown layers. A black star, a production red, two golden comets, a chocolate and buff orpington.

How did I get a yellow chick? I suspect the egg came from one of my orpingtons, could be wrong. Sorry if its an elementary question lolView attachment 4310080

Incubator photo of chick. Will take more when he's more downy.
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He's Dominant white. With lots of red leakage in the shoulders. I suspect he's split for silver as well.

 

[NatJ]

Howdy all,

I just hatched my first chick out from my flock. The dad is an American Breese x (photo 1). I'm not sure what you'd label his color as.

Chick hatched from a brown egg. I have a small grip of brown layers. A black star, a production red, two golden comets, a chocolate and buff orpington.

How did I get a yellow chick? I suspect the egg came from one of my orpingtons, could be wrong. Sorry if its an elementary question lolView attachment 4310080

Incubator photo of chick. Will take more when he's more downy.
View attachment 4310084

If that rooster is the father, then the mother could be your Chocolate Orpington or your Black Star (chick gets the genes to be all-black from the mother, then the gene Dominant White from the father will turn all that black into white.)

Or if the father has the Silver gene, the mother could be any of the other hens (mother gives the chick genes to be mostly red, but father could give the Silver gene that turns mostly-red into mostly-white.)

You might get quite a few yellow chicks from that set of parents. You might also get red chicks (any hen except the Chocolate Orpington) and black chicks (Black Star hen and Chocolate Orpington hen).