Henk69
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First, thank you Henk for your help!
Are the feathers on a "duckwing" a solid color? Both of my roosters have bi-colored flight feathers, you can see this in the top photo but the lower one the wing triangle appears red but the top half of the feathers is blue/gray. Which gene/combo causes the bi-colored flight feathers? I know my Silver Laced Wyandottes also have this trait.
Could you recommend a book, in English, that would be a "beginner" level for the color patterns we see in our Icelandics? The actual gene compositions are also of interest, but maybe more than I want to tackle right now. Your calculator is wonderful but I don't know just how to enter some of my birds and whether it even work with them since they don't breed true.
Here are pictures of the roosters than have sired all my chicks for this year. What would their color patterns be called?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44049_may_eleven_044.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44049_ari_strut.jpg
In a duckwing the wing triangle is groundcolor in appearance but the feathers are indeed bicolor. One flag is mostly groundcolor, the other mostly patterncolor (black or a dilution thereof, in your case blue/gray).
Duckwing used to refer to the blue sheen over a silver duckwing game rooster's wing bar. A crowwing would have a green sheen there.
A crowwing also has a solid black (...) wing triangle area. That difference did not catch the eye of the old gamefanciers...
Both rooster show a duckwing wing triangle so they could genetically be either a duckwing (e+) or a wheaten (e^Wh) or a brown/partridge (e^b)
Rooster 1 looks like a het dominant white (I/i+) patterned very melanized one (eg Ml or cha/cha).
Rooster 2 looks like a black breasted red, no other genes have to be set
The hackle striping looks like e^b, maybe e+, less likely e^Wh
First, thank you Henk for your help!
Are the feathers on a "duckwing" a solid color? Both of my roosters have bi-colored flight feathers, you can see this in the top photo but the lower one the wing triangle appears red but the top half of the feathers is blue/gray. Which gene/combo causes the bi-colored flight feathers? I know my Silver Laced Wyandottes also have this trait.
Could you recommend a book, in English, that would be a "beginner" level for the color patterns we see in our Icelandics? The actual gene compositions are also of interest, but maybe more than I want to tackle right now. Your calculator is wonderful but I don't know just how to enter some of my birds and whether it even work with them since they don't breed true.
Here are pictures of the roosters than have sired all my chicks for this year. What would their color patterns be called?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44049_may_eleven_044.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44049_ari_strut.jpg
In a duckwing the wing triangle is groundcolor in appearance but the feathers are indeed bicolor. One flag is mostly groundcolor, the other mostly patterncolor (black or a dilution thereof, in your case blue/gray).
Duckwing used to refer to the blue sheen over a silver duckwing game rooster's wing bar. A crowwing would have a green sheen there.
A crowwing also has a solid black (...) wing triangle area. That difference did not catch the eye of the old gamefanciers...
Both rooster show a duckwing wing triangle so they could genetically be either a duckwing (e+) or a wheaten (e^Wh) or a brown/partridge (e^b)
Rooster 1 looks like a het dominant white (I/i+) patterned very melanized one (eg Ml or cha/cha).
Rooster 2 looks like a black breasted red, no other genes have to be set
The hackle striping looks like e^b, maybe e+, less likely e^Wh
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