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I just hatched out a batch of 10 bantam phoenix chicks this week. The breeding pen that the eggs came from contains a SDW rooster and 2 white hens. I was kinda under the impression that I would get a bunch of chipmunk striped chicks but only 2 out of the 10, the rest are yellow. Does that mean my SDW roo is carrying white or are the whites dominant? But if thats the case wouldn't all of the chicks have been yellow? My grasp of chicken color genetics is rudimentary at best.
that's normal. the vast majority of white phoenix are recessive white based over silver duckwing. Many silver duckwing thus also carry recessive white, so in the long run if you are breeding those 2 colors together, you have a good shot at both, either or, or just a all around mix of the two. Unless you get them from a "specialty" breeder who focuses heavily on color development, you will never see a dominate white phoenix. They only come from those who have took the time to outcross them and work on colors like pyles.
 
Iv got silver duckwing phoenix roosters.. I am being offered black, blue, lemon blue, and birchen hens.. Wich colors can i get and breed to SD?
all of them

sd to black will be black and carry silver duckwing. you can get both from those chicks the following year

sd to blue will give blue and black , all carry silver duckwing, the following year you will get more blue and blue silvers from the blue chicks

lemon blue is a blue version of a brown red birchen. Birchen are dominate over duckwing colors, so all will be birchens, some blue some normal. then you'll have the silver to red gene mix too, will get some golden out of it

sd to birchen will be all birchen
 
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I just hatched out a batch of 10 bantam phoenix chicks this week. The breeding pen that the eggs came from contains a SDW rooster and 2 white hens. I was kinda under the impression that I would get a bunch of chipmunk striped chicks but only 2 out of the 10, the rest are yellow. Does that mean my SDW roo is carrying white or are the whites dominant? But if thats the case wouldn't all of the chicks have been yellow? My grasp of chicken color genetics is rudimentary at best.
No, the white is not dominant.. It is recessive white and your rooster is carrying one copy of it apparently..
 
Just a few pics of the many colors of longtails we have coming up this year.. It is the year of colors! LOL> Enjoy..
Beautiful Refined silver duckwing pullet

Some misc.. colored birds


Pretty blue gold pullet with nice saddles....


Got several of these this year.. Anyone else get these? What color would you call it? PIED?

yellow leg bbred cockerel

minohiki type cockerel....
 

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