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[centrarchid]

Golden feathers on hens neck will be silver to white with balance of body appearing almost as your hens shown except up close the small areas of brown on a given feather will appear greyish making for a slight silver cast.

 

[chickletteSarge]

Looks good!do you plan on dubbing?

 

[McGillGamefowl]

Yep, gonna dub him in about 2 weeks.....was trying to wait for temp to go down a lil bit,

 

[centrarchid]

Silver birchen rooster
(bantam modern gamefowl)

Your silver birchen stag is a pretty good approximation of what the crow-winged brown red will appear with one copy of the silver allele except the shoulders will be yellowish almost like on a golden ducking. Going homozygous for silver allele will give effectively the same as shown with stag above with no trace of red / yellow even on shoulder.

 

[McGillGamefowl]

Do you think silver is the dominant over the brown, reason why I'm asking is I'm trying to create more of each colors

 

[centrarchid]

The silver shuts down expression of both brown and red which are actually the same in many ways. Even though those not carrying silver can look different, especially on hackle feathers of both sexes and saddle of male (red, brown, yellow/lemon), once the silver comes into play the color does not translate into variations on silver.

 

[McGillGamefowl]

Ok thanks for the help i appreciate it, sounds like a culling project, whether its really worth it or not, i dunno but, i gotta work with what i got for now, these modern are pretty rare around my neck of the woods, I've got 3 silver birchen roosters, 3 silver birchen hens and 3 brown red hens

 

[jockeyeba]

Our 14 week old batch of Hatches ............

 

[McGillGamefowl]

Nice looking lil fellers, looks like you got sum pea comb in there

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Silver is dominant over gold(brown, red) the offspring will black bodied with (golden/straw) colored sex feathers/pyle area(wing bows, hackles, saddles) the hens will be straw colored in the neck(where the red/brown is now) and black all over elsewhere. the opposite cross(Brown red male over a silver birchen hen/ gold over silver sex-link) would yield the males as described as the first cross and the females would look like the brown red hen posted. To get more silver birchen you breed back to silver birchen or blacks. Jeff