Pictures from the coop party! What a Blast!

[Blisschick]

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So you received that case of NADS I sent? Glad to hear it.

Sure, now you jump in. PP has a shipping box for your two silkie roos. It turns
out our splash is a roo too and our black is getting better looking every day.

Oh, hey, splash works, too. At this point I'd be happy to get one with checkerboards on it.

How much is the box? And who is PP? Sorry...I was just subjected to one of my husband's bad B movies, so my brain is out on strike...

BTW...I showed the pics to my DH (who was born in Groton at the Naval base) and told him how beautiful Connecticut looks, that I wouldn't mind living there. He shot that down by saying it's too cold. He said Maine is really beautiful too, with a lot of mountains. Then he comments "I wonder why they put walls on the coop?" Well, duh, IT'S COLD!

 

[perfectly_polish]

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[Blisschick]

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OHHHHH *smacks herself in the head*

I told you that movie ruined my brain! Sorry PP...

 

[perfectly_polish]

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OHHHHH *smacks herself in the head*

I told you that movie ruined my brain!

How could you forget me *sniffle*

 

[Blisschick]

I was thinking he meant Parcel Post or something related to mailing birds...sorry. Smack me a with trout.

I saw your buff girl in the photo...she looks lighter than mine. Do they vary in color like that? I just hatched out a few, and the one buff looks really pale in comparison to her mom. Also...do you or have you ever gotten gold laced from buff laced? I keep getting gold laced babies from my buff parents.

 

[perfectly_polish]

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My buff polish or silkie? Are you sure they are golden laced? That's really strange to get that color from a buff, if you breed to Buff laced polish you should get buff laced and nothing else, it's not like the blue gene.

 

[Blisschick]

Buff laced polish. Both parents are buff with a couple of black flecks here and there, which isn't unusual in buffs (or at least all the buffs of any breed I've seen). I was really surprised the first time it happened, because I thought maybe my girl had been mated by another roo, but considering they're the only two in the cage and nobody goes in or out except me, it has to be them. I was under the impression the buff gene was a double recessive, so it would be passed on like that, so either I'm wrong or there's something else at work here. All I know is that I'm getting both black and buff babies from my buff pair. Dunno.

 

[perfectly_polish]

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Maybe one of them has golden parents or grandparents and the gene is just showing up

Or maybe PC snuck in your coop one night..

 

[Blisschick]

I'd forgotten I'd found the answer...I had to dig up an old post. This is what it said:

I did a little digging and found this at another website. It reads, in part:

...Buff laced [is] the same as Gold laced, but the dominant white restricts the black and turns it white. Leaving the gold. What makes the gold turn buff?

Dominant white is enough to turn the brown gold buff because it preferentially removes the brown, but fanciers have bred in the buff modifiers that make the males a more even buff color. If all you have was dominant white the males would be darker gold in some of their feather tracks. You can see this in some lines of buffs and Polish. You need special modifiers to get the males to be a uniform buff color or their shoulders with be darker red, also hackles and saddles with be an off shade.

So, from what I can gather from this is that apparently my little dark chick did not inherit the dominant white gene from either of it's parents, leaving it a Gold Laced. I believe this is the case because I can see a little red on it around the eyes, like I found in some photos of Gold Laced chicks.​

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Oh my gosh... how fun!!!

Thanks so much for sharing with us!