Hidden Genes in White Birds?

[theredroosta]

I crossed an rir roo to a w leghorn hen and got an off-white female and a yellow-white with red and white barring on the saddle, wing and hackle feathers. I don't have a clue what bird has the barring gene but I'm think the rir because it showed up along with the red color. I will post a picture if needed.

 

[draye]

I breed a White Rock rooster to some Red Sexlink hens, I got the following:

17 chicks: 2 barred 1 pullet and 1 cockeral
1 red with black down the back, turned into a red barred rooster
1 chipmunky looking one; Still can't figure out what color it is supposr to be, partridge is as close as I can guess but not
brown enough to be a real partridge.
1 started out barred but turned into a laced barred pullet
11 white, a few of them had a few red feathers in them here and there, 6 pullets and 5 cockerals
1 pullet that looks exactly like a red (more buff) sexlink.


I thinking about taking the hens and putting them under a red and white Easter Egger.

 

[sjarvis00]

Quote:
She is most likely a recessive white, it is very common in exhibition poultry to use a very light blue or splash so long as it carries silver instead of red with white to reduce the yellowing or sun brass as some will call it in teh line of whites. from there on for the next few generation it will be possible to hatch a white from the Blue or splash, or have extremely light nearly white splash. the white chicks that hatch white with the silvery smokey top down aer highly desired for breeder whites.