The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[MysteryChicken]

Yes,

Nice.
Both Blue partridge hens are his daughters. Mother was a White Silkie.

 

[MysteryChicken]

While Splash can look very white you will always see a black or blue feather here and there.

Look at the Heckel
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That's what I'm used to seeing on Splash.

 

[I Like Turkeys]

Ok, i'm sorry to be asking so many questions about my birds, but would my rooster have gotten the columbian and silver genes from his barred rock mother, or should I believe it to have come from perhaps a easter egger father with the gene?

It's coming from him. He just happens to have Extended black(E/eb) and Heterozygous for the Columbian gene) He is also S/s+ at the sex linked locus

I think what i'm trying to ask is:
Do Plymouth barred rocks typically have columbian restriction? Also do they have the silver gene?

 

[nicalandia]

Ok, i'm sorry to be asking so many questions about my birds, but would my rooster have gotten the columbian and silver genes from his barred rock mother, or should I believe it to have come from perhaps a easter egger father with the gene?

I think what i'm trying to ask is:
Do Plymouth barred rocks typically have columbian restriction? Also do they have the silver gene?

The columbian was inherited form the EE father, the Silver came from either of the parent. Plymouth Rocks don't have columbian restrictor but have Silver.

 

[FunClucks]

New chicken keeper here and head-over-heels for beards, boots, and Easter eggers. Also like landraces & hardy dual purpose birds. What are my options?

My flock has started with EE’s I believe are a Welsummer roo, lavender Americauna roo, and 2 BCM hens. My favorite is the Americauna but I’m afraid his solid, pale coloring has made him a target in 2 predator attacks within his brief 4 months of existence. His coloring is stunning but I’m swearing off such novelties from here on out. My birds need camouflage!

I’m thinking about adding a Mille Fleur D’Uccle to my flock but how small are they exactly? My Americauna is small but would he be too big for a MFD? Is there another breed similar to MFD but larger?

Have you considered Swedish Flower Hen (55 Flowery Hen) or Jubilee Orpington? Similar coloration as the D'Uccle but in a larger size. I love the D'Uccles too, but my 10 lb RIR-mix/production red rooster is almost too big for my 4 lb prairie bluebells (seems like it to me), so D'Uccles are out for now for me unless I split the flock. Swedish Flower hens are also really good about evading predators and foraging.

 

[mominoz]

This is the thread to ask anything related to genetics to me. I have Asperger's syndrome. I have poor social skills and can't understand sarcasm so science/numbers/genetics have come very easy to understand.


Ask away.

I just started with Dorking chickens. My first breeding of some Sandhill birds I received got me blue, may be laced and a reddish many call Clay in the Dorking group. the father was a colored, mothers were either a darkish gray, with reddish breast and black head, or a kind of messed up birchen they said... I was told if I bred them to black, I might be able to get a blue line going. I have put a black Sandhill Dorking rooster with them, (but Sandhill said they had to cross their blacks with reds to prevent inbreeding issues, so some of the blacks I got this year do show some red in some of them...the rooster I put with the blue and clays is not showing red. (I also am rebreeding the orginal rooster to those hens and 2 others to see if it shows up again).

 

[I Like Turkeys]

The columbian was inherited form the EE father, the Silver came from either of the parent. Plymouth Rocks don't have columbian restrictor but have Silver.

Right! Ok sorry, one more question, these are the Easter egger males I had around and before the time I incubated the egg my rooster came from. The first definitely has columbian, but I’m unsure if he mated the barred rocks.

The second was penned with the barred rocks for a few weeks, but does he show columbian? I think no, but can’t tell?

Is it most likely, color-wise, that the first male is the father?

 

[nicalandia]

I just started with Dorking chickens. My first breeding of some Sandhill birds I received got me blue, may be laced and a reddish many call Clay in the Dorking group. the father was a colored, mothers were either a darkish gray, with reddish breast and black head, or a kind of messed up birchen they said... I was told if I bred them to black, I might be able to get a blue line going. I have put a black Sandhill Dorking rooster with them, (but Sandhill said they had to cross their blacks with reds to prevent inbreeding issues, so some of the blacks I got this year do show some red in some of them...the rooster I put with the blue and clays is not showing red. (I also am rebreeding the orginal rooster to those hens and 2 others to see if it shows up again). I have a book that explains waterflowl colors, but not one for chickens as I was raising waterfowl for over a decade.

@MysteryChicken

 

[nicalandia]

These are the Easter egger males I had around and before the time I incubated the egg my rooster came from. The first definitely has columbian, but I’m unsure if he mated the barred rocks.
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That columbian rooster is the Sire of the barred rooster.

 

[SourRoses]

It's coming from him. He just happens to have Extended black(E/eb) and Heterozygous for the Columbian gene) He is also S/s+ at the sex linked locus

Forgive me, but doesn't the hen look like she has columbian in her?
Especially around the neck with the way it goes from white at the top to laced...

Same shift from white neck to laced in this columbian hen...