How did this happen??

[ameraucanacrazy]

Hey,

Just this past week I had my first babies of the year hatch and the only eggs I had in the incubator was my marans eggs and some of my blue wheaton turken eggs. But when the babies hatched out I had the little yellow turkens and then I had some little black maran x chicks but then I had a bunch of little odd ball colored babies most of them were white and yellow with chipmunk strips.

My question is how did I end up with yellow babies from my black copper maran when I had her in with a pure black wyandotte rooster?





Thanks,

 

[draye]

Hey,
Just this past week I had my first babies of the year hatch and the only eggs I had in the incubator was my marans eggs and some of my blue wheaton turken eggs. But when the babies hatched out I had the little yellow turkens and then I had some little black maran x chicks but then I had a bunch of little odd ball colored babies most of them were white and yellow with chipmunk strips.
My question is how did I end up with yellow babies from my black copper maran when I had her in with a pure black wyandotte rooster?
Thanks,

Was your Black Wyandotte hiding white in its background?
Just a thought.
Turken? How'd that happen? You have or had any Turken's?

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

No the Wyandotte is pure bc I have kept track of my breeding of my blue splash and black wyandottes. And yh I had some baby turkens that hatched out as well. I was just wondering how the little white babies came out of two black chickens?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Recessive white can hide for many generations if not paired up with another bird carrying recessive white. Black can also mask some pattern genes; if his base is heterozygous, the black would override the less dominant variation, but the offspring may inherit the less dominant variation, allowing pattern genes to show.

 

[ameraucanacrazy]

Okay thank u guys so much