The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[nicalandia]

I’m confused, are you saying he has a “pumpkin” phenotype but genetically isn’t pumpkin?? Is that what you meant when you identified him simply as “pumpkin” in your first response?

That is true. He has the color of a Pumpkin..!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I had a golden neck duccle, quail danver, silver birchen, blue mottled, and barred cochins. My buff brahma hen had been removed from the pen for weeks. So is it possible to tell who laid who from this information or is it all recessive and I need to label my next hatch to see?

Yes I do, the red has some white and black leakage with his molt this year, the only hen i dont have a pic of is the buff mottled duccle, she was so pale she was almost white too but they dont look like duccle mixes. Thanks for the tip on the naked necks I wasn't sure whether to go back and forth or do what you suggested so that helps. I have 2 half naked neck hens, could they be put with the cochin rooster and be recessive or is that a waste of a hatch? The frizzle chick in question has gray down the smooth doesn't and they both have a strange reddish blue/black where the black would be on a silver columbian. The smooth also has feathered out fairly white but they're both definitely still more of a yellowView attachment 3290516thats the frizzle on hatch day niether yellow chick had "chipmunk " stripes like my naked neck who is a silver columbian and he is not a possible parentView attachment 3290512View attachment 3290515

I agree that the red frizzle is probably the father of the silver chicks. However, I’ll still need pictures of the possible mothers (bolded above). The black chick looks like a cross of birchen hen x red frizzle rooster.

You can only get naked neck chicks if at least one of the parents is visibly naked necked.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I think I know which Malay hen produced my boy with the long full tail. I'll get pictures of her tomorrow. I gotta take her saddle off anyway.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

These little pheonix girls occasionally pop up. The male's look different, but I'm assuming that they're the same color but with a type of sex-specific differences.

It comes from the same male that makes the white pheonixes and either the same hen as well or from the white female. Is there any way to know for sure besides test breeding? They're so lovelyView attachment 3295633View attachment 3295634

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's my Suspect Malay hen. I suspect that she gave me the cockerel with the Full tail. She's almost done with her molt.
She's my pearl eyed beauty.

Opinions on her tail would be nice? When it's fanned out, it's very pretty.

 

[BByroo]

I agree that the red frizzle is probably the father of the silver chicks. However, I’ll still need pictures of the possible mothers (bolded above). The black chick looks like a cross of birchen hen x red frizzle rooster.

You can only get naked neck chicks if at least one of the parents is visibly naked necked.

My bad I forgot they definitely had to come from the frizzle and I was looking for the hen I'll go take pictures now and edit them to this response.

I had 2 of each but I sold a few to make room for the naked necks and frizzles I plan on hatching and the only hen I dont have a picture of was the golden neck duccle

 

[SourRoses]

Can autosomal red be pushed into the background of a black bird without showing any leakage but still kept in the line?
I was just reading that the red does one thing that I want but I don't want to see leakage.

 

[nicalandia]

Can autosomal red be pushed into the background of a black bird without showing any leakage but still kept in the line?
I was just reading that the red does one thing that I want but I don't want to see leakage.

Yes, of course..

For example by breeding a known red/gold male to a Unknown All Black Female(You can't tell if a black bird is carrying Silver or Gold) You are ensuring that all of the Females are gold, but split for Extended Black.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Will breeding a mottled to the recessive white pheonixes I have result in all black chicks that carry the white and the mottling?

 

[nicalandia]

Will breeding a mottled to the recessive white pheonixes I have result in all black chicks that carry the white and the mottling?

Depends on if The recessive White Phoenix are recessive white due to mo^w(allelic mutation of recessive mottling) or if they are recessive white due to c/c

If they are like many Japanese White breeds they they are mo^w/mo^w so when crossed to recessive mottling the cross will be mo/mo^w and appear like the exchequer pattern..

If they are c/c then they will likely be all black with some leakage when adults