Smokey color gene in chickens?

[gimmie birdies]

 

[nicalandia]

Smokey is an allelic mutation of the dominant white allele. Blue is a different mutation

 

[KAGs waterfowl]

Interesting, nicalandia.
What breeds can be used to produce these mutations? Obviously a dominant white leghorn, but what other breeds would I use if I wanted to produce these?

 

[nicalandia]

Interesting, nicalandia.
What breeds can be used to produce these mutations? Obviously a dominant white leghorn, but what other breeds would I use if I wanted to produce these?

The smokey mutation has been confined to lab research only. Unless by chance you come by spontaneous mutation(not unheard of, for example the silkie feather mutations seems to have appeared spontaneously a few times already). You will not come up with something similar.

 

[KAGs waterfowl]

Good to know. Thank you.

 

[nicalandia]

Good to know. Thank you.

If you are looking for new color to work with perhaps you will take the lead and work with both Dun and Chocolate on the same bird. I would have seem that homozygous Dun(I^D/I^D) and recessive chocolate(choc) can combined and produce a Beige like color

 

[KAGs waterfowl]

If you are looking for new color to work with perhaps you will take the lead and work with both Dun and Chocolate on the same bird. I would have seem that homozygous Dun(I^D/I^D) and recessive chocolate(choc) can combined and produce a Beige like color

That sounds interested. That’s not the same as Mauve, right?

 

[nicalandia]

That sounds interested. That’s not the same as Mauve, right?

No, it has both Dun and chocolate on the same bird so the color is diluted to a beige color

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

That sounds interested. That’s not the same as Mauve, right?

Mauve is chocolate and blue.

 

[KAGs waterfowl]

That’s what’s I thought. Thanks!