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).

 

[GrymGhoul]

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).

Update: I THINK the chick has white chipmunk markings, I don't know if this helps or not. I have to get him in better light for a photo now that he's fluffed up. So "yellow" with white stripes, they're hard to see, if that helps with the silver question.

I only have the one rooster, so he's definitely the dad. His dad was an American Breese, but the lady had a whole grip of purebred birds for the mothers, so anyone's guess what he's crossed with.

I have eggs in from my mutts, which I'm excited to see what they look like, as those hens are crazy cool looking and lay pretty eggs.

 

[NatJ]

Update: I THINK the chick has white chipmunk markings, I don't know if this helps or not. I have to get him in better light for a photo now that he's fluffed up. So "yellow" with white stripes, they're hard to see, if that helps with the silver question.

In that case, the chick could grow up to be silver with some white (basically, a white chicken). Or the chick could have a light shade of gold with some white (similar colors to a Buff Laced Polish, but not the actual "laced" pattern.)

I only have the one rooster, so he's definitely the dad. His dad was an American Breese, but the lady had a whole grip of purebred birds for the mothers, so anyone's guess what he's crossed with.

I have eggs in from my mutts, which I'm excited to see what they look like, as those hens are crazy cool looking and lay pretty eggs.

It should be fun to see what colors of chicks you get!