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[RoostersAreAwesome]

This is one of the newbies. He's a Silver Duckwing OEGB X Mille Fleur D'uccle mix. View attachment 1853829 View attachment 1853832 View attachment 1853837 He's a perfect mix of Silver Duckwing, & Mottling. Planning to use him for breeding Silver Duckwing Mottled D'Uccles.

That isn't mottling. It's the effect of wild type on columbian. A very interesting pattern for sure.

 

[MysteryChicken]

That isn't mottling. It's the effect of wild type on columbian. A very interesting pattern for sure.

Mottled feathers have white tip, correct? Wild type upon a mottle type chicken creates a Silver Duckwing mottling pattern.

 

[MysteryChicken]

His genes will consist of e+/e+ S/S co+/co+ mo/mo.
Columbia isn't within his genetic make up. If so he'd be mostly white like my last chick. I've done my homework on Chicken Genetics.

The little black spots disappeared at 7 weeks. This chick has Columbia genes, which are e+/e+ S/S Co/Co, or Co/co+ mo+mo+.
This is my last chick.
He's about 4-5 weeks in these photos, he died before I could get more pictures.

 

[MysteryChicken]

That isn't mottling. It's the effect of wild type on columbian. A very interesting pattern for sure.

Keep the genetics in the genetic thread please?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Mottled feathers have white tip, correct? Wild type upon a mottle type chicken creates a Silver Duckwing mottling pattern. View attachment 1854235

Not in the first generation. Mottling is recessive. Mottled carriers often have a few mottled feathers, but that's all. What you're seeing is silver leakage. Leakage happens when you cross different varieties. A color can look the same as something else, but not be that. For instance, I had a d'uccle/serama cross who was mostly white with a few buff and black feathers. She could've been dominant white or silver, but I knew her serama parent had extreme mottling, and since her d'uccle parent also had mottling, I knew she was mottled. Also, she had buff down as a chick, which wouldn't have happened if she was dominant white.

A mixed breed rooster without mottling:

A mixed rooster with mottling:

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

His genes will consist of e+/e+ co+/co+ mo/mo.
Columbia isn't within his genetic make up. If so he'd be mostly white like my last chick. I've done my homework on Chicken Genetics.View attachment 1854249 The little black spots disappeared at 7 weeks. This chick has Columbia genes, which are e+/e+ Co/Co, or Co/co+ mo+mo+.
This is my last chick.
He's about 4-5 weeks in these photos, he died before I could get more pictures.

Just because he's not columbian based doesn't mean columbian didn't affect his coloring. Are you saying that crossing mottled columbian with wild type will automatically give you wild type chicks with mottling? Genetics doesn't work like that. You'll get chicks that have genes from columbian and wild type affecting what they look like. They will carry mottling, but not be mottled.

Keep the genetics in the genetic thread please?

I just wanted to make sure others in this thread would know that mottling doesn't happen in first generation crosses of mottled x non-mottled. Want to continue the rest of this conversation on your other thread?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Not in the first generation. Mottling is recessive. Mottled carriers often have a few mottled feathers, but that's all. What you're seeing is silver leakage. Leakage happens when you cross different varieties. A color can look the same as something else, but not be that. For instance, I had a d'uccle/serama cross who was mostly white with a few buff and black feathers. She could've been dominant white or silver, but I knew her serama parent had extreme mottling, and since her d'uccle parent also had mottling, I knew she was mottled. Also, she had buff down as a chick, which wouldn't have happened if she was dominant white.

A mixed breed rooster without mottling:
View attachment 1854275

A mixed rooster with mottling:
View attachment 1854277

First picture is Spangled, or transverse mottling. Often white background with black spotting.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Just because he's not columbian based doesn't mean columbian didn't affect his coloring. Are you saying that crossing mottled columbian with wild type will automatically give you wild type chicks with mottling? Genetics doesn't work like that. You'll get chicks that have genes from columbian and wild type affecting what they look like. They will carry mottling, but not be mottled.

I just wanted to make sure others in this thread would know that mottling doesn't happen in first generation crosses of mottled x non-mottled. Want to continue the rest of this conversation on your other thread?

If you don't get extreme with it, that's fine.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

First picture is Spangled, or transverse mottling. Often white background with black spotting.

You could call it that. I doubt he has anything spangled in his background. I believe his pattern resulted from lacing getting diluted over a couple generations of crossbreeding.

If you don't get extreme with it, that's fine.

I'm not sure what you mean by extreme, but I'll try to avoid that.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You could call it that. I doubt he has anything spangled in his background. I believe his pattern resulted from lacing getting diluted over a couple generations of crossbreeding.

I'm not sure what you mean by extreme, but I'll try to avoid that.

Okay. I'll just make a conversation with you instead.