Strange crosses

[Retaccire]

I managed to cross a Golden Phoenix rooster with another Cross, a roundhead and claret gamehen cross. Thing is the hen looks like a golden Phoenix hen and the room looks more like a black breasted red Phoenix rather than the parents.

 

[nikkers390]

I know nothing about game chickens except they are drop dead gorgeous.

 

[centrarchid]

Your Golden Phoenix was heterozygous for the silver allele. If he was homozygous then he would have been Silver Phoenix. Therefore each offspring had 50% chance of getting a silver allele. If you has only a few chicks, then odds pretty good that none got a copy of the silver allele.

A Silver Phoenix would produce only golden male offspring and silver female offspring. The silver allele is on the W - male chromosome which males have two copies and females have only one.

 

[Retaccire]

Your Golden Phoenix was heterozygous for the silver allele. If he was homozygous then he would have been Silver Phoenix. Therefore each offspring had 50% chance of getting a silver allele. If you has only a few chicks, then odds pretty good that none got a copy of the silver allele.

A Silver Phoenix would produce only golden male offspring and silver female offspring. The silver allele is on the W - male chromosome which males have two copies and females have only one.

 

[Retaccire]

That's a picture of the parents

 

[centrarchid]

The rooster is heterozygous as evident by red shoulders and saddle. Game hen does not carry silver allele.

 

[Retaccire]

The rooster is heterozygous as evident by red shoulders and saddle. Game hen does not carry silver allele.

That's cool I learn something new every day