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[sdm111]

 

[alroy82]

Im fixing to get a new rooster but im confused about his colors. He looks 100% hatch but is supposed to be 3/4 and rest law grey. I thought grey was dominant gene how is he red?

 

[alroy82]

Cock im fixing to trade for supposed to be 3/4 blue face hatch 1/4 law grey.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I am not an expert but genetics is a bit of a dice roll for each fertilization: So think of it this way one parent bird was probably 100% blue face hatch, the other 50% blue face hatch and 50% law grey what that means is you have the red genetics on both sides of the parent birds even if one bird looked grey. So if it is strictly r vs D genetics then every chick from that cross would have a 50% of looking grey or red and all chicks including the grey ones will carry red. However I think there is some sex linking to this & my understanding on sex linked genes or genes that work together to create a feather color is shaky at best, I am just starting to wrap my head around how the rooster & hen color DNA effects the chick, but a specific cross concerning the parents sire and dames color can skew your results on color too.

Also some animals (and I am unsure if this has been researched in chickens) tend to supply instead of truly random genes but consistently certain genes... there is special terms for this, but the gist is that the chain tends to break at the same place and thus contribute more of that gene then what is statistically probable.

I hope this helps... hurts the head genetics.

 

[B123]

Cock im fixing to trade for supposed to be 3/4 blue face hatch 1/4 law grey.

Hutt describes silver and gold as the following. The coloring is sex-linked so depending on how the breeder made the cross will influence the color outcome, but gold/Red is certainly possible for the bird you may get.

Silver/Grey = S
Gold/Red = s


For Silver/Grey birds they may be:

Males can be SS, Ss
Females are S-


For Gold/Red birds they may be:

Males are ss
Females are s-

 

[sdm111]

Hey flypen does he look blueface?

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Hutt describes silver and gold as the following. The coloring is sex-linked so depending on how the breeder made the cross will influence the color outcome, but gold/Red is certainly possible for the bird you may get.

Silver/Grey = S
Gold/Red = s


For Silver/Grey birds they may be:

Males can be SS, Ss
Females are S-


For Gold/Red birds they may be:

Males are ss
Females are s-

Wow my brain was right in remembering there was a sex-linked factor to this... (that's a small miracle)

So the Sire could have been ss and the Dam s- to produce the ss cockerel or Sire Ss and Dam s- to produce ss cockerel.

But the Dam could not have been S- crossed with a ss Sire as that would have resulted in sex linked chicks as the male chicks would all look Silver like the hen and the pullets would be Red/Golds.

 

[B123]

Wow my brain was right in remembering there was a sex-linked factor to this... (that's a small miracle)

So the Sire could have been ss and the Dam s- to produce the ss cockerel or Sire Ss and Dam s- to produce ss cockerel.

But the Dam could not have been S- crossed with a ss Sire as that would have resulted in sex linked chicks as the male chicks would all look Silver like the hen and the pullets would be Red/Golds.

I assume to get that male in the pic, that the law grey may have been Ss. I am not very familiar with law greys. Do they show a gold in the hackle sometimes?

 

[Kung Fu Rooster]

They look good! What are they?

 

[JShubin]

Cock im fixing to trade for supposed to be 3/4 blue face hatch 1/4 law grey.

regardless of the breed, that is a good looking bird. I crossed grey with hatch (bbr) many times over and the lemon hackle is a typical outcome. I dont know about the genetics end of it.