Mystery chick - pic heavy

[dretd]

The parents of the barred chicks were del x hamp 2nd generation but both carried the new hamp color. They looked like br chicks at hatch but when feathers came in there was a lot of gold leakage in the hackles. It is funny though because there were only a few out of a couple hundred chicks. I have since sold those chicks but I still hav the parents. I know where the barring comes from but I don't know why there were so few.

Interesting. I went to the chicken calculator to play with the colors a bit http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html . If you pull up a barred male and cross it with a red columbian female then take the resultant cross and replace the Silver locus S/s+golden with S/S silver then cross again you will get a yellow/golden black patterned columbian barred 12.5% of the time. Since I don't know your breeding its hard to go farther than that. If you have nothing better to do, you cold play with it. The chicken calculator is imperfect and you have to create your own Del, which may not be accurate in reality but its a start.
Apparently I don't have a life and instead of playing video games I play chicken color math.

 

[dretd]

If they have barred rock hens, that would be my guess. Red roo over barred hen = black sex link. Your hen looks quite similar to some home hatched black sex links I've had. Knowing what breeds they have to choose from will help.

I guess the hen could be a dominique, but then the comb would reflect that.

The red rooster just looks like a generic red bird. You could probably call him a New Hampshire, but to me that comb reflects mixed heritage.

I think you're on to something donrae. I am still confused about the black comb. Maybe the hen was herself a hybrid like BRxSumatra.

 

[WinklerFarms]

I love the chicken calculator! I have a book on order right now about color genetics. I can't wait to get it. I was never interested in color genetics but after I started hatching and seeing the offspring look nothing like either parents it got me interested.


Here is another good one: in all the chicks I have hatched I have Never hatched a white based female. Every white one has been cockerel. But I get an even mix of reds and the occasional black or barred. 3 barred total 2 were pullets and 1 was a cockerel. I also have gotten some all black with a green sheen (4 that I can remember) and 2 were pullets and 2 were cockerels. I also have hatched out 2 black with gold leakage and 1 is a cockerel and 1 is looking like a pullet. I plan to recross these and see what the result is. It makes me wonder why there are such oddballs in there.


And to the op.....sorry for the hijack

 

[WinklerFarms]

Oh I forgot to say I have a white roo that I free range sometimes with the hens, so i imagine this is where the white cockerels come from, but then again not sure.

 

[Majd]

Hey I newly knew that its a black star (sex link)!!

 

[popsicle]

I love the chicken calculator! I have a book on order right now about color genetics. I can't wait to get it. I was never interested in color genetics but after I started hatching and seeing the offspring look nothing like either parents it got me interested.

Which book do you have on order? I have a couple in my wishlist.
/sorry to continue with the threadjack.

 

[citybiddies]

Thanks for the chicken calculator link! I don't know enough to really use it to reflect an actual bird in my flock yet, but I love that you can click on show the effect of this locus to see what the changes or doesn't in various combinations. Still no word back from the folks who donated the eggs, and I hate to bother them, but I'll definitely post whatever additional info I do get. Thanks for all the great comments! I'm learning so much. I'm glad the consensus seems to be that the chick is a pullet since it gives us plenty of time to see how she matures. She gets more brown in her feathers every day and is really pretty even if she is a mutt. She's a devil to catch though, the other chicks that hatched with her are pretty docile, but this one is extremely wary, fast on her feet, and shrieks like crazy when you finally manage to pick her up. I suppose those are good qualities for a day ranging flock though.

 

[WinklerFarms]

I love the chicken calculator! I have a book on order right now about color genetics. I can't wait to get it. I was never interested in color genetics but after I started hatching and seeing the offspring look nothing like either parents it got me interested.

Which book do you have on order?  I have a couple in my wishlist.
/sorry to continue with the threadjack.

This one. http://www.purelypoultry.com/21st-century-poultry-breeding-p-791.html


There is another one that I want that is actually a college textbook but at $300 it is a little to expensive for me right now. After I sell a few more batches of chicks then I will order that one.