Is this splash, or a similar trait?

[LilJoe]

Probably, lol. What color eggs do they lay?

 

[Yrat]

Probably, lol. What color eggs do they lay?

a range of light blue to dark olive

 

[seventreesfarm]

Cool looking birds!
Does anyone know what blue splash Roos will throw?
I have an ameraucana blue splash and am curious to see what he can do, but most BBS color charts don't go that far.

 

[Yrat]

getting many more "dalmation" chicks with this spring's hatches. whereas i used to get only one or two spotted chicks out of a batch, i am now getting all spotted with only one or two without.

there are even a few birds who look like they may have blue paint spots instead of black.

i will update this thread again soon as these birds mature.

 

[Yrat]

 

[LilJoe]

Looks like a paint

 

[nicalandia]

Background: I am into the third or fourth generation of my flock, selecting for members of an original easter egger/americauna x some sort of white rooster. Within the last couple generations I have accidentally stumbled across a splash gene that was hidden within my original pair.

Some researchers have found that when you keep crossing Heterozygous dominant white(I/i+) to pure black(Castellana Negra in the research that I am about to post) each consecutive back cross becomes more and more black flecks, so likely what you have there is heterozygous white with similar effect

source> http://www.genetics.org/content/48/9/1141.full.pdf

 

[LilJoe]

Looks like a paint

I didnt realize I had been here before and thought the post above mine was the first post.

 

[nicalandia]

Just some on the study posted.

White Leghorn x Black breed produced F1s that had small black flecks expected from such cross, thes F1s were crossed back to white leghorns and back to the black breed, the result was all white heterozygotes when crossed to white leghorn(large enough progeny number to produce heterozygotes I/i+) this all white heterozygotes were outcross to a non white breed to confirm heterozygosity of the breeds... What's interesting is that the backcross to the black breed the flecks kept getting larger and more pronounced as they kept backcrossing them to black breed.

 

[ChickenLeg]

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If you get back online post more pics! these are awesome!