Meet Hiccup

[townchicks]

Hiccup is very striking.

 

[KDMdesigns]

Wow Love it's unique coloring... see thats why I want Roosters and can't have them yet..

 

[Sneebsey]

thanks. At first I was certain that the EE was the daddy. However we sold him half way into May and since then we have had two broody hens each hatch a clutch of eggs. Among these we are having colors I wouldn't think were possible with the lavender being based on extended black. We have 2 cockerels right now that are black with red and gold coming in and they were hatched at the end of July to 2nd week of August. The mother to these two is a brown leghorn. And we have had 2 white chicks to hatch as well. One I sold so I am not certain how it looks now, but the other one is snow white with black spots coming in quite a bit now. I though that the mother to the white ones were from one of my golden comets, the build of the pullet looks more like her than the leghorn. And I know it isn't from the splash because all of her chicks (4 so far) have been blue.

here is the lavender roo, you can see he has some golds bleeding through so that was why I thought that he might be the dad to Hiccup.

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Now he's lovely. I really like the way Lavender dilutes gold to that cream colour. He does indeed have something hiding underneath the black, a second e-series, though it's difficult to tell which.

The white chicks are a result of your Golden Comets' (or white Leghorns also have it) Dominant White gene; a single copy of the gene results in white with colour leaking through.

All the chicks from your Splash hen should indeed be blue when bred to a cockerel without the 'blue gene'. They will get one copy of 'blue' from Mum and one copy of 'not blue' from Dad. It sounds like you have a nice variety there; enjoy.

 

[HenHouse4Life]

HE'S GORGEOUS!

 

[RowanTheRed]

Now he's lovely. I really like the way Lavender dilutes gold to that cream colour. He does indeed have something hiding underneath the black, a second e-series, though it's difficult to tell which.

The white chicks are a result of your Golden Comets' (or white Leghorns also have it) Dominant White gene; a single copy of the gene results in white with colour leaking through.

All the chicks from your Splash hen should indeed be blue when bred to a cockerel without the 'blue gene'. They will get one copy of 'blue' from Mum and one copy of 'not blue' from Dad. It sounds like you have a nice variety there; enjoy.

I am only just beginning to understand chicken genetics. Does dominant black take precedence over dominant white? This is what is confusing me with the random white chick. Everything else is coming out black or blue with some leakage of red and golds, like I was expecting with a lavender rooster. I guess I just figured that the black would do the same for the white. It's all confusing, especially when I am dealing with cross breeds like the golden comet. I am not certain which of their inherited traits are more dominant than others

 

[Sneebsey]

Extended black is an e-series, and denotes what pigment goes where, essentially. Your brown leghorns are wildtype on the e-locus, as an example.

Dominant white is a 'modifying' gene, and turns black pigment to white, just as blue turns it blue.

Here's a genetics series which is helpful for learning the basics, and an article with great pictorial examples.

 

[RowanTheRed]

Extended black is an e-series, and denotes what pigment goes where, essentially. Your brown leghorns are wildtype on the e-locus, as an example.

Dominant white is a 'modifying' gene, and turns black pigment to white, just as blue turns it blue.

Here's a genetics series which is helpful for learning the basics, and an article with great pictorial examples.

thanks, I shall be reading that!

 

[Abriana]

So beautiful and a cutie pie! These puffy cheeks!

 

[RowanTheRed]

So beautiful and a cutie pie! These puffy cheeks!

thanks, that he is!