Is This Color Pattern Lacing, or Something Else?

[Cyprus]

It's a genetic illusion Some chickens are great at this. I'm willing to bet that as your chick grows you may see more of a 'speckled' appearance rather than any type of lacing or barring.

I'm inclined to agree with this.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Good morning.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's a single breast feather from the chick.

What pattern does it fit?

 

[Cyprus]

Here's a single breast feather from the chick.View attachment 1753332 View attachment 1753333 What pattern does it fit?

None. It is missing one or more charateristics of each pattern.

 

[MysteryChicken]

None. It is missing one or more charateristics of each pattern.

Okay, what pattern is it closest too?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Its not exactly a pattern per say but a lack of pattern. Its from the original wild type and is referred to as stippling.
I replied to your other post yesterday and misposted it was from the partridge when I meant wheaten but anyways its part of a few patterns. Wildtype, wheaten etc.
Your bird is silver instead of gold so it looks a bit different since it is just black and white but if you look at several different types of hens its present. Leghorns, welsummers, lots of EEs etc.
Just research stippling.
Its under the buff of the orpingtons in your birds blood. Some poorly colored buff birds let it show through if you look close. It has a slight border and a more distinct line down the middle.
I believe I heard somewhere it is what is effected by the pg gene that turns it from stippling to penciling etc.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Its not exactly a pattern per say but a lack of pattern. Its from the original wild type and is referred to as stippling.
I replied to your other post yesterday and misposted it was from the partridge when I meant wheaten but anyways its part of a few patterns. Wildtype, wheaten etc.
Your bird is silver instead of gold so it looks a bit different since it is just black and white but if you look at several different types of hens its present. Leghorns, welsummers, lots of EEs etc.
Just research stippling.
Its under the buff of the orpingtons in your birds blood. Some poorly colored buff birds let it show through if you look close. It has a slight border and a more distinct line down the middle.
I believe I heard somewhere it is what is effected by the pg gene that turns it from stippling to penciling etc.

Okay. I did reply to you yesterday on my other thread.
So that pattern Is produced through wild type chicken breeds? If I remember right, while working on my crele chicken project, you told me non of my birds carried the wild type genetics, is that correct?
My black chicks had faint grey chipmunk stripes upon their down that I hatched from my flock.

Look close to the rump?

 

[MysteryChicken]

 

[The Moonshiner]

You chicks do not have wild type. That feather "pattern" is just part of the pattern not a pattern itself. Wild type (duckwing) was the original chicken pattern and that was a camouflage feature for the hens.
Wheaten is what BO has under their buff coloring. Wheaten is a close pattern to wild type and shares that stippling feathers but in a lighter shade.. Your chicks have wheaten that's what causes that feather look. But of course yours carry silver so yours are just black and white.
Yours also carry extended black so that's covering the wheaten. Those feathers are leaking through the extended black just as the faint chipmunk stripes were in that chick.
To be technical I believe "stippling" actually refers to the black specks and those are what gets altered to make other patterns such as penciling and lacing.
Any of that make sense?
Typing in a bit of a hurry since I'm at work.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You chicks do not have wild type. That feather "pattern" is just part of the pattern not a pattern itself. Wild type (duckwing) was the original chicken pattern and that was a camouflage feature for the hens.
Wheaten is what BO has under their buff coloring. Wheaten is a close pattern to wild type and shares that stippling feathers but in a lighter shade.. Your chicks have wheaten that's what causes that feather look. But of course yours carry silver so yours are just black and white.
Yours also carry extended black so that's covering the wheaten. Those feathers are leaking through the extended black just as the faint chipmunk stripes were in that chick.
To be technical I believe "stippling" actually refers to the black specks and those are what gets altered to make other patterns such as penciling and lacing.
Any of that make sense?
Typing in a bit of a hurry since I'm at work.

Just confused me for a minute.