The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[NatJ]

Yes, I'm gonna be crossing my color changing hens to solid, & barred roosters, Malays, Project Wheaten Crele Orpington, & Heritage Plymouth Barred Rock.

If you have a rooster with mottling, you might try him too.

Mottling is definitely one thing that can cause a chicken to get more white with successive molts.

Getting some chicks with a known mottled parent, and without barring, might help sort out part of this genetic puzzle.

 

[MysteryChicken]

If you have a rooster with mottling, you might try him too.

Mottling is definitely one thing that can cause a chicken to get more white with successive molts.

Getting some chicks with a known mottled parent, and without barring, might help sort out part of this genetic puzzle.

No mottling in their ancestry.

All I have is a split mottled rooster.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Just to be clear, each color changing hen shared a Double Molt.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Black hen/Chameleon Hen molted to a shiny black, then a month later started a second molt resulting in her coloration.

Her mother is following the same pattern.

 

[NatJ]

No mottling in their ancestry.

Mottling is recessive, so depending on who their ancestors were, there might have been mottling present but not visible. That's why I thought it might be worth test-mating.

I know you have quite a few chickens of various mixed kinds, but I haven't kept track of exactly what might be in each individual one.

All I have is a split mottled rooster.

For testing, he is definitely less useful than a bird that actually shows mottling (mottled, Mille Fleur, Porcelain, Speckled Sussex, etc.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Mottling is recessive, so depending on who their ancestors were, there might have been mottling present but not visible. That's why I thought it might be worth test-mating.

I know you have quite a few chickens of various mixed kinds, but I haven't kept track of exactly what might be in each individual one.


For testing, he is definitely less useful than a bird that actually shows mottling (mottled, Mille Fleur, Porcelain, Speckled Sussex, etc.)

I know mottling is recessive.

Father of the first color changing hen is Dino. He's a crossing of Buff Orpington/Barred Rock X Buff Orpington/Australorp.

Father as a chick

Smarty Pants, Mother of the Chameleon Hen(I don't have chick pictures of her, but she looked exactly like a Barred Rock chick.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Dino's Father, Buff Orpington/Barred Rock cross.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Dino's Mother, Buff Orpington/Australorp cross.

 

[MysteryChicken]

 IF my Chameleon hen is mottled, & bred to the mottled Split rooster, the results would be like this:
25% Solid Black Males, with leakage.

25% Solid Black Females, with leakage

25% Mottled Males, with leakage

25% Mottled Females, with leakage

 

[MysteryChicken]

@NatJ
This is the only mottled hen(Bantam) I have. Do you think she'd work for crossing with Dino?