No cheating guess the chook challenge!

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

Sorry about the quality of the photo

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Nope! It's really strange what the silkie and the hen produced since neither of them are barred. Out of all the chicks that have hatched from them only one was a color other than barred.

Yep! I told ya he looks nothing like his parents!

Do you have pictures of the parents? Barring is a dominant gene, so it’s strange that their offspring is barred if they’re not.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Do you have pictures of the parents? Barring is a dominant gene, so it’s strange that their offspring is barred if they’re not.

I don't have a pic of the father because I had to sell him when I was downsizing for the winter but i have a pic of the mother. The father was a white silkie. I don't know much about the genetics in either of them but the mother was a surprise chick that accidentally got put in a batch of wellsummers. The father was ordered by my mother in quest to get chocolate silkies. He supposedly carrys chocolate. The father's brother was barred.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

This is an old pic of the mother but she looks the same now as she did in the pic.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I don't have a pic of the father because I had to sell him when I was downsizing for the winter but i have a pic of the mother. The father was a white silkie. I don't know much about the genetics in either of them but the mother was a surprise chick that accidentally got put in a batch of wellsummers. The father was ordered by my mother in quest to get chocolate silkies. He supposedly carrys chocolate. The father's brother was barred.

This is an old pic of the mother but she looks the same now as she did in the pic.
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Since the father was white, it’s very likely he had barring hidden under that white. Recessive white, the kind most common in silkies, doesn’t show up at all if the chicken has one gene for it, but completely covers up any other colors if the chicken has two genes for it. Or, if he had dominant white, it would’ve covered up barring, too. So under that white he actually was barred, though you couldn’t visually tell.

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

Who’s going now?

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Since the father was white, it’s very likely he had barring hidden under that white. Recessive white, the kind most common in silkies, doesn’t show up at all if the chicken has one gene for it, but completely covers up any other colors if the chicken has two genes for it. If he had dominant white, it would’ve covered up barring, too. So under that white he actually was barred, though you couldn’t visually tell.

Thanks! I'm fairly good with mouse genetics but I know next to nothing about chicken genetics.

 

[NatJ]

Thanks! I'm fairly good with mouse genetics but I know next to nothing about chicken genetics.

White bars on a white chicken wouldn't be very noticeable anyway

 

[HuffleClaw]

Someone post a new pic

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

Someone post a new pic

I just looked back and my pic on the last page is still going, no one has guessed yet tho .