Hen or roo

[hunthrail]

Debating getting this Ermine Ameraucana. Hen or roo? I don't want to shell out almost 100$ on a bird that ends up being a roo that I can't keep where I live .

 

[Rose the Legbar]

The black and white chick is a cockerel. The white and brown one is a pullet.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

I agree. As a side note, the one with brown isn't ermine, as those are supposed to be only black and white.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

The red and white one is a pullet.

 

[Yard Farmer]

The black and white chick is a cockerel. The white and brown one is a pullet.

I second this.

 

[hunthrail]

I agree. As a side note, the one with brown isn't ermine, as those are supposed to be only black and white.

What color/pattern would it be considered?

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

What color/pattern would it be considered?

Not sure. She looks like she might be carrying one copy of the mottling gene. @NatJ might know what her pattern is called. (Sorry for tagging you for the second time in a day, Nat!)

 

[NatJ]

Not sure. She looks like she might be carrying one copy of the mottling gene. @NatJ might know what her pattern is called. (Sorry for tagging you for the second time in a day, Nat!)

Sorry, I don't know what to call the red and white bird. I am also not sure what is going on genetically there.

If she has any mottling, she probably would have two copies, to be showing that much white. One copy of the mottling gene "should" not show any effect because mottlng is recessive. In practice, it sometimes does cause little dots when a bird has just one copy of the gene, but not large amounts of white.

But she could just as easily have the genes to have a lot of black and a bit of gold leakage, plus one copy of the Dominant White gene turning most of the black to white (missing a few bits here and there), and that would leave the gold leakage pretty much untouched. I think this is more likely than just having mottling to cause the white.

Of course she could have both of those going on at once.