How to understand the chicken calculator

[NatJ]

Yes I know the mothers of his chicks as they are in my flock. They are relatively easy to find and put into kippen (gold laced, black mottled, partridge and cuckoo) except for the wyandotte who has red or dark buff lacing on top of a white background, but with a grey head. The white was told to me here that it was splash blue.

Then you could try working through each mother, with various possibilities for the father, to try to get the right chick. You probably already tried that, but now try assuming that everywhere the rooster's color requires a dominant gene, he also has a recessive gene (one that matches the hen, or one of the other options for that gene.)

Of course, that makes lots of options to try...

 

[Chicalina]

That would take me years! I've already tried 10 combos (him with two options over five different hens) lol

I've just checked the breeder's listings. She has paint, white, black, blue, buff and partridge silkies. So any combination of these could be my rooster's parents.

This is very hard!

He has thrown out this oddity which shouldn't be possible on any of my hens if he is dominant white or dominant black acc to kippen. So I must have his colour wrong I think? Or he is hiding something!

 

[NatJ]

That would take me years!

I know

He has thrown out this oddity which shouldn't be possible on any of my hens if he is dominant white or dominant black acc to kippen. So I must have his colour wrong I think? Or he is hiding something!

Probably hiding something.

I've just checked the breeder's listings. She has paint, white, black, blue, buff and partridge silkies. So any combination of these could be my rooster's parents.

I'm guessing he's paint x partridge, or maybe paint x buff. Some of the genes from the partridge or the buff would then be passed on to his chick, which would explain your mystery chick. (And having a partridge or buff parent could also explain the brown in his own color, if paints are usually just black and white but he isn't.)

Maybe try him with E/e^b, and s+/s+, then add whatever else is needed to make a paint. (I don't know if it's mottling, or one copy of Dominant White being leaky, or some other gene yet-- I think I've seen all of those ideas on various parts of the internet, and I have no personal experience with the color. The calculator seems to think I/i+ and mo/mo together make a paint-looking bird.)

 

[Chicalina]

I know



Probably hiding something.



I'm guessing he's paint x partridge, or maybe paint x buff. Some of the genes from the partridge or the buff would then be passed on to his chick, which would explain your mystery chick. (And having a partridge or buff parent could also explain the brown in his own color, if paints are usually just black and white but he isn't.)

Maybe try him with E/e^b, and s+/s+, then add whatever else is needed to make a paint. (I don't know if it's mottling, or one copy of Dominant White being leaky, or some other gene yet-- I think I've seen all of those ideas on various parts of the internet, and I have no personal experience with the color. The calculator seems to think I/i+ and mo/mo together make a paint-looking bird.)

Thank you for the tips. I'm going to go back and play with it a bit more. That's a few hours of my life gone!! haha!

 

[pennyJo1960]

And then you can ask gee but a chicken whatever floats your boat

 

[Amer]

Thanks Amer!!!

Any idea what i should put for the silkie? I tried piebald dom white exchequer and all his babies turn out white or paint, and i tried him as Exchequer and all his babies turn out black except with a cuckoo pairing (barred gene). Presumably because these two options are dominant white and dominant black?

I've currently got black, paint, white and an odd possibly gold laced out of him as live chicks!

Which makes me think he isn't either of those options I have selected

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[Chicalina]

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Right. I'm off to kippen. I'll be back!

TY btw!