Mottled Brahmas

[Roxana72000]

Hi I need help I’m new to breeding chickens and I wanted to know I have a black mottled Brahma rooster and my hens are buff, buff laced , blue partridge …. What colors would the chicks be ?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi I need help I’m new to breeding chickens and I wanted to know I have a black mottled Brahma rooster and my hens are buff, buff laced , blue partridge …. What colors would the chicks be ?

Mottling is a recessive gene. That means your rooster has two copies of that gene at that gene pair and will give one copy to all of his offspring. But since it is recessive you will not get any mottling with chicks from those hens. If you breed them back to that rooster or breed the offspring you can get mottling in some of the chicks.

Lacing is also recessive so the same thing with lacing. You should not see it.

Your Black rooster with the Buff hens will theoretically give you solid black chicks. But that is just theory. Buff contains diluters that can cause some interesting results. Some chicks will be black or almost solid black, but you can often get random yellow or orange feathers. Sometimes the yellow or orange can be more like blotches than random feathers. I've seen some really interesting results.

With the blue partridge hen about half the chicks should be Blue and half Black. It is not sex linked so either color could be either sex.

 

[Roxana72000]

Mottling is a recessive gene. That means your rooster has two copies of that gene at that gene pair and will give one copy to all of his offspring. But since it is recessive you will not get any mottling with chicks from those hens. If you breed them back to that rooster or breed the offspring you can get mottling in some of the chicks.

Lacing is also recessive so the same thing with lacing. You should not see it.

Your Black rooster with the Buff hens will theoretically give you solid black chicks. But that is just theory. Buff contains diluters that can cause some interesting results. Some chicks will be black or almost solid black, but you can often get random yellow or orange feathers. Sometimes the yellow or orange can be more like blotches than random feathers. I've seen some really interesting results.

With the blue partridge hen about half the chicks should be Blue and half Black. It is not sex linked so either color could be either sex.

Ok understood … thank you so much for your help