Starting from Scratch....Columbian Cochin Bantams

[Krys109uk]

Presuming the columbian colour discussed is the same colour as light Sussex & light Brahmas, the white their case caused by silver. I imagine the white of white cochins is recessive white. Just about anything could be underneath recessive white which tends to make it not the best colour for outcrossing.

 

[Huny]

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Hmm So we need something like a Silver Cochin type? Or I wonder about a black? I think we are going to have to have a few experiments in Genetics here.

 

[Msbear]

maybe birchen ?

 

[Krys109uk]

You could do it with what you've got. I was just saying that they are probably two different types of white & that would need to be taken into consideration. Recessive white covers only when homozygous. Dominant white covers black related colours only...(slightly lightens colour when homozygous, I think). Silver is incompletely dominant to gold & is sex linked. Reds other than sex linked gold may leak through silver slightly, I think, even when homozygous.

 

[Huny]

Well I had white cochin bantams coming soon so I panicked a little. I hope it would work that way

If not...I guess I will enjoy some white cochins and some mutts