Polish Chicken Genetics

[Hazel1352]

Hey y'all, I'm purchasing the following Polish Chicken colors;
- Roo - Silver Lace
- Hens - Golden Lace
- Hens - Buff Lace

I want to know the color outcomes of breeding the male Sliver Lace to each of the 2 hen colors. What is dom and what is recessive?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

According to the kippen calculator, your silver laced rooster with your gold laced hen will give you silver laced girls and gold/yellow laced boys. (Sex linked cross)
Your silver laced rooster with your buff laced hen will give white and silver laced girls and yellow and gold laced boys.(also sex linked).

 

[nuthatched]

I think you might get sex link chicks, yhr girls will be black and white, boys will have kind of yellow lacing and leakage.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Silver laced male crossed with gold laced female:

Genotypes:

	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ mh+mh+ di+di+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+- S- Choc+- Gender = Female, Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2 black patterned silver laced•tail Continue with this Female | Select for later crossings
	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ mh+mh+ di+di+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+b+ Ss+ Choc+Choc+ Gender = Male, Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2 black patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Continue with this Male | Select for later crossings

Phenotypes:

	Pullets: black patterned silver laced•tail Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2
	Cockerels: black patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Ratio = 1/2 = 50%, minimum of animals to breed: 2

Silver laced male crossed with buff laced female:

Genotypes:

	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ Mhmh+ Didi+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ Ii+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+- S- Choc+- Gender = Female, Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4 white patterned silver laced•tail Continue with this Female | Select for later crossings
	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ Mhmh+ Didi+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ Ii+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+b+ Ss+ Choc+Choc+ Gender = Male, Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4 white patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Continue with this Male | Select for later crossings
	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ Mhmh+ Didi+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+- S- Choc+- Gender = Female, Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4 black patterned silver laced•tail Continue with this Female | Select for later crossings
	ebeb CoCo db+db+ PgPg MlMl Cha+Cha+ Mhmh+ Didi+ Ig+Ig+ cb+cb+ i+i+ bl+bl+ Lav+Lav+ C+C+ Mo+Mo+ b+b+ Ss+ Choc+Choc+ Gender = Male, Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4 black patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Continue with this Male | Select for later crossings

Phenotypes:

	Pullets: white patterned silver laced•tail Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4
	Pullets: black patterned silver laced•tail Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4
	Cockerels: white patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4
	Cockerels: black patterned yellow/golden laced•tail Ratio = 1/4 = 25%, minimum of animals to breed: 4

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Oh and welcome to BYC

 

[NatJ]

According to the kippen calculator, your silver laced rooster with your gold laced hen will give you silver laced girls and gold/yellow laced boys. (Sex linked cross)
Your silver laced rooster with your buff laced hen will give white and silver laced girls and yellow and gold laced boys.(also sex linked).

NOT sexlinks. The calculator is misleading.

Silver is dominant. The males and the females will both be silver.

It may not be a clean silver (yellowish cast), and the males may show some gold or red leakage as they grow up, but when they are young the males and females will look enough alike that you can NOT sex them by color. By the time you see any color differences, they should be plenty old enough to sex by other methods (comb, wattles, feather shape.)

If the buff laced is pure for all the genes she's supposed to have, then ALL her chicks will have white lacing (so white laced silver, which basically looks white.)

To get actual sexlink chicks, you need the male to be gold and the female to be silver (backwards of what OP has.) The males come out the same either way, but the females are not.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

NOT sexlinks. The calculator is misleading.

Silver is dominant. The males and the females will both be silver.

It may not be a clean silver (yellowish cast), and the males may show some gold or red leakage as they grow up, but when they are young the males and females will look enough alike that you can NOT sex them by color. By the time you see any color differences, they should be plenty old enough to sex by other methods (comb, wattles, feather shape.)

If the buff laced is pure for all the genes she's supposed to have, then ALL her chicks will have white lacing (so white laced silver, which basically looks white.)

To get actual sexlink chicks, you need the male to be gold and the female to be silver (backwards of what OP has.) The males come out the same either way, but the females are not.

Oh well… I tried. Thanks!

 

[NatJ]

Oh well… I tried. Thanks!

I wish the calculator didn't show it that way, because you're certainly not the first one to get misled by it!

 

[Hazel1352]

Thank you everyone!! Since posting this and reading the comments, I have decided to not get the Sliver Lace Roo and decided to get a Buff Lace Roo instead. Thank you everyone for all your comments!!