Laced Wyandotte genetics?

[Jayzandra]

I hatched some EE x SLW eggs and the chicks have the coloring of Golden Laced. So this got me curious on the genetics of the lacing patterns. I know with the BLRW there is Black and Splash very much involved in that. How does it work with the Silver and Golden?




Here's mom and dad.

 

[Makomd]

For proper lacing two separate genes are required. Pattern gene Pg/Pg and Melanotic gene Ml/Ml. Quality of lacing depends on the proper genes being in place. Picture below shows what happens when these genes are correct bottom right corner and when they are not correct the other three.

Your crosses should not provide any lacing unless your EE is carrying some hidden genes. Crossing of offspring should provide some lacing in some birds.


Silver and Gold are unrelated to the Blue gene. Males carry two genes females carry one gene. You can only have silver or gold hens. Males can be silver , or gold, or silver with gold (carries one of both genes).

Like the BLRW is blue, but carries the gold gene and enhanced with mahogany gene (makes more Red). Reality it is a Blue gold laced enhanced with Mahogany Wyandotte , sure makes BLRW a better choice, huh?

 

[Jayzandra]

For proper lacing two separate genes are required. Pattern gene Pg/Pg and Melanotic gene Ml/Ml. Quality of lacing depends on the proper genes being in place. Picture below shows what happens when these genes are correct bottom right corner and when they are not correct the other three.

Your crosses should not provide any lacing unless your EE is carrying some hidden genes. Crossing of offspring should provide some lacing in some birds.


Silver and Gold are unrelated to the Blue gene. Males carry two genes females carry one gene. You can only have silver or gold hens. Males can be silver , or gold, or silver with gold (carries one of both genes).

Like the BLRW is blue, but carries the gold gene and enhanced with mahogany gene (makes more Red). Reality it is a Blue gold laced enhanced with Mahogany Wyandotte , sure makes BLRW a better choice, huh?

Thank you for that info. My Wyandotte's lacing doesn't look like any of those.

 

[Makomd]

Appears your Wyandotte has the correct lacing, the one on the bottom right.

 

[donrae]

I'd be interested to see if your chicks are sex links. It's next to impossible to predict with an Easter egger rooster, unless you bred his parents yourself and know the genetic involved. But a red (gold based) rooster over a silver based hen will make sex links--looking at your chicks I'm thinking it could be possible. The silver-ish chick would be male, the gold-ish colored chick would be female. Maybe update us in a few months when you can be sure of genders?


Nothing to add about the lacing, sorry......

 

[Jayzandra]

I'd be interested to see if your chicks are sex links. It's next to impossible to predict with an Easter egger rooster, unless you bred his parents yourself and know the genetic involved. But a red (gold based) rooster over a silver based hen will make sex links--looking at your chicks I'm thinking it could be possible. The silver-ish chick would be male, the gold-ish colored chick would be female. Maybe update us in a few months when you can be sure of genders?


Nothing to add about the lacing, sorry......

Hmmm, now you got me thinking. I will definitely update you as I figure out their genders.

 

[Jayzandra]

Here's a little update on those chicks. The silver one doesn't any tail, the gold one just a little tail. Hmmmm....

 

[Makomd]

One is yellow legged and the other blue legged. And I would tend to bet they are sex-linked based on coloring and the tail.

 

[Jayzandra]

Ooh, I hope so. That would be so cool and I will definitively keep being this pair. I can't wait to see what they end up looking like.

 

[Jayzandra]

Here's an up date. They are now 5 weeks old and I'm starting to see some reddening combs. It seems three of the four EExSLW are cockerels.


In this ^ pic, they are the 4 in the bottom left corner.

\/VV This is the biggest boldest one and one of the original 2 from the beginning of this post...



VVV This one isn't as red as the previous two, but it still looks to be pink-ing up.

VVV I love this one's color and keeping that yellow comb. She's one of the original in the beginning of this post.