Interaction between splash & mottled genes?

[seventreesfarm]

I'm playing around with some breeding charts and a few test combos lead me to chx with both splash & mottled coloring. How would that work? Would it even be noticeable or just look like a splash?

I have some nice blue birchen marans and a few Silverudd's with the mottling gene so I thought it might be fun to see what I can cook up. Are Silverrudd's based on extended black?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there.

I don't have your exact answer... but I a toy for you to play with if you haven't already seen it. Bookmark it. Looks like it says if you cross splash to red or black mottled you will get 100% blue. Check out this link and see what you might cook up!
http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

The second drop down tab is in English. It doesn't have every color available, nor does it account for color leakage... but boy can it save you some time and be a great resource.

 

[sylviethecochin]

According to the internet, Silverudds are Birchen.

Also, splash is just a mutation of black. So if they have splash, it will go into the pattern exactly as black would. And whether you would see it would almost certainly depend on how dark the splash is. I had one hen who looked almost white, but produced blue chicks. I suspect you could see mottling much better in a dark splash.

Of course, Mottling is recessive, so you wouldn't see anything until the second generation.

 

[seventreesfarm]

I'm a superuser of the chicken calculator. It's so much fun to experiment, but I'm not familiar with the color genes for Silverudd's or the mottled gene, but I've been breeding chickens for decades, so I've got the basics down. I'm mostly curious if mottling would be noticeable with splash coloring, once I did enough crosses to lock both colors in.

Some of the Silverudd's I got from Greenfire have 'interesting' coloring, so I wasn't sure what their black is based on. I've read that mottling is common in later imports but I've never worked with it.

 

[sylviethecochin]

According to an internet search, you have to look really closely to see mottling, but it does appear and breeders prefer to avoid them, unless they're crossing black mottled to splash mottled.

Couldn't find any images, though, sorry.

 

[seventreesfarm]

Since Silverudd's are birchen I can probably get a nice splash mottled in a couple of hatches, just for fun. My blue birchen marans cockerel is turning out really nice, so I plan to see what I can do with his genes.