How it happened?

lilwanderer

Crowing
Apr 7, 2022
882
1,988
266
Live Oak, Florida
I have this 6 week old hen with a weird but pretty pattern and I'm just wondering how she got it. So, how did,
this:
20220706_133419.jpg

and this:
20220706_133530.jpg

make this:
20220706_132747.jpg

And if y'all happen to know, what is it exactly that she has?
 
The dad is a mix between rir, golden sebright, and cuckoo maran. The mom is a light brahma. Does that say anything?
Yes it does. I think you chick has blurry silver lacing. The blurriness is caused because not all the genes are in the homozygous form. Your male has all the genes needed for lacing (birchen, pattern gene, columbian, melanized). Meanwhile, the light brahma has columbian and partridge, also used in lacing. She gets her silver color in one copy from her father. So incompletely silver laced chick!
 
Yes it does. I think you chick has blurry silver lacing. The blurriness is caused because not all the genes are in the homozygous form. Your male has all the genes needed for lacing (birchen, pattern gene, columbian, melanized). Meanwhile, the light brahma has columbian and partridge, also used in lacing. She gets her silver color in one copy from her father. So incompletely silver laced chick!
Yeah, I thought she had something silver laced in her, that makes a lot of sense, thanks.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom