The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Yep I figured, but thanks for confirming. Some people told me she’s a bantam so I’ve only recently thought otherwise when seeing seramas. Do you happen to know of any patterns (or base color) that could bring out the pattern I’m looking for?

I would cross her to her father, a silver duckwing rooster, a silver partridge/penciled rooster, or a silver serama to try and get similar offspring. You may have to cross the male offspring back to her.

That’s the tricky thing. Her mother and father were both larger than her, as she’s fully grown. Mother was all black and father was an old English. If she came out completely different in pattern and size, then I can only assume she’s picked up on someone’s familial genetics. All I can plan on doing then is to find a physical look that could possibly bring out her pattern.

If her father was an OEGB, then she isn’t a purebred serama bantam, she’s half OEGB. Do you have pictures of her parents?

 

[3KillerBs]

Edited because I forgot the tag: @nicalandia

I don't understand my hatch.

My two roosters are a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

Two of my 7 chicks are out of French Cuckoo Marans eggs. (Other possible mothers include Blue Australorps, Silver-Laced Cochin, Black Langshan, Dominique, and black-split-to-lavender Orpington x Wyandotte mixes but I don't know which egg came from which hen other than the Marans).

But only one of 7 chicks has feathered feet. I thought that even if all the eggs were fertilized by the Blue Australorp at least both of the ones from the FCMs would have feathered feet.

How does this happen?

 

[ChicksnMore]

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 was hoping for help learning how to identify feather patterns and someone suggested you might be able to help. Here's some individual feathers from some of my hens. I think I see mottled or mille fleur, quail and splash.
Splash or could this be mottling? This is an all white and black feather...it's just dirty on the tip...I found it on the ground in there coop.


Mottled?


Quail with mottling?


Is this lacing and penciling or just part of quail patterning?

 

[crystlln]

@nicalandia

What color would the chicks be of a Bielefelder rooster and a barred rock hen?

Also, the only way to get sex-linked with this rooster would be to cross with a silver hen? (I know Bielefelder themselves are auto-sexing.)

Thanks

 

[TheFatBlueCat]

@nicalandia

I'd love to learn what is going on with recessive genes that gave me this pullet (photos) her parents are rooster barred rock and hen lavender araucana (New Zealand type).

She has come out columbian (with some barring on her black feathers) with red leakage on her wings, back and tail. All other chicks from this cross were black barred as expected.

Thank you very much.

 

[nicalandia]

@nicalandia

I'd love to learn what is going on with recessive genes that gave me this pullet (photos) her parents are rooster barred rock and hen lavender araucana (New Zealand type).

She has come out columbian (with some barring on her black feathers) with red leakage on her wings, back and tail. All other chicks from this cross were black barred as expected.

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Thank you very much.

Pure Barred Rocks are Extended Black at the e locus so they are E/E with Barring, Self Lavender are also Extended Black at the e locus so they are E/E non-sex linked barring(no barring), that hen can't possibly be their offspring unless the parents are Not pure...


The only possible way for that pullet to have been sired by both parents are the following.

The Barred Rock sire is actually a Barred Rock/Columbian Rock progeny(perhaps not F1 but a few generations back so he is still carrying wheaten hidden under extended black so he is E/eWh ), The Lavender Dame is actual also another product of Lavender/Wheaten cross(perhaps not F1 but a few generations back so she is still carrying wheaten hidden under extended black so he is E/eWh

Both Parents are E/eWh so the chances of getting a pure eWh/eWh were 25%..

Columbian Rocks.

Wheaten Araucana

That is the ONLY WAY, because if Any of her parents were pure(Pure Extended Black) she would have come out pure black barred

 

[TheFatBlueCat]

Pure Barred Rocks are Extended Black at the e locus so they are E/E with Barring, Self Lavender are also Extended Black at the e locus so they are E/E non-sex linked barring(no barring), that hen can't possibly be their offspring unless the parents are Not pure...


The only possible way for that pullet to have been sired by both parents are the following.

The Barred Rock sire is actually a Barred Rock/Columbian Rock progeny(perhaps not F1 but a few generations back so he is still carrying wheaten hidden under extended black so he is E/eWh ), The Lavender Dame is actual also another product of Lavender/Wheaten cross(perhaps not F1 but a few generations back so she is still carrying wheaten hidden under extended black so he is E/eWh

Both Parents are E/eWh so the chances of getting a pure eWh/eWh were 25%..

Columbian Rocks.
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Wheaten Araucana
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That is the ONLY WAY, because if Any of her parents were pure(Pure Extended Black) she would have come out pure black

Thank you. It is very likely that her parents had that in their history. The gene pool here is very limited and it's not uncommon to outcross and then move back toward the standard in following generations. I didn't breed either of the parents but they definitely look like they should for their breed. The Araucana hen isn't show quality but still looks like an Araucana hen.

I'll add a photo of her parents, and I am certain of this, he is my only rooster and I have only 2 Lavender araucana hens and I can tell their eggs apart, plus I know she hatched from a blue egg.

 

[nicalandia]

Yeah, Wheaten can hide under all of the Barring and Wheaten for Generations...

 

[NatJ]

@nicalandia there's been a few questions I think you missed. Here's a quote from each, and I think you can click on the quote to go to the actual post.

Edited because I forgot the tag: @nicalandia

I don't understand my hatch.
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I was hoping for help learning how to identify feather patterns and someone suggested you might be able to help. Here's some individual feathers from some of my hens....

 

[NatJ]

I'm not nicalandia, but I think I can answer this one.

What color would the chicks be of a Bielefelder rooster and a barred rock hen?

Black with white barring, likely with some gold leakage as they grow up.
They will all be pure for the barring gene, which means males will have two copies of that gene, and the females only one, so you might be able to identify gender the same way people can with Barred Rocks: males have more white and females are darker.

Also, the only way to get sex-linked with this rooster would be to cross with a silver hen? (I know Bielefelder themselves are auto-sexing.)

Yes, that sounds right. Crossing the Bielefelder rooster (gold) with a silver hen should give sexlinks.