The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[nicalandia]

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

Thanks for helping out. There are some questions I would rather not answer. Sometimes I just too tired

 

[crystlln]

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


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.


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

Thanks! The cross is tempting just for the fun of it and because they are both such friendly, healthy chickens. I have space for one rooster and really like the Bielefelders autosexing . I'd also like sexlinks so I'm off to research silver hens!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Hey there...really pondering if I'm gonna hang on to this roo or not.
This first pic is his dad...unsure of exactly mom but definitely a satin silkie possibly this 2nd pic.
My satin roo is the 3rd n 4th pics.
If I breed him with a silkie paint what would the result be?
Is it 50/50 satin and silkie chicks?
What colors would they be?
How do you determine if there is recessive white in a chicken?

 

[NatJ]

If I breed him with a silkie paint what would the result be?
Is it 50/50 satin and silkie chicks?

It might be 50/50, or it might be only satin chicks.
It would depend on whether he carries the recessive gene for silkie feathers or not.
If you hatch some chicks from him, with a silkie hen, you will soon know whether he produces some silkies or all satin.

What colors would they be?

I would expect some paint chicks and some mostly-black chicks (might be all black or might have some white showing in places.)

How do you determine if there is recessive white in a chicken?

By looking at their parents or their offspring. If one parent is recessive white, every one of their chicks must have the gene. If a chick is recessive white, then both parents must have the gene.

But a chicken can carry the recessive white gene without showing it, and they could have inherited it from a parent that also carries that gene without showing it, and so on-- so it can be passed on for many generations without being noticed.

 

[kurby22]

It’s me again! I’m curious how this coloration occurs? I’m a big fan, it’s really pretty and she will have a self blue Ameraucana to breed with and I’m curious how their babies would look?

I feel like what I’m seeing is a buff Columbian pattern where the black color has been diluted to a blue gray color. She is obviously (now that I look closer) an EE but has a lot of Ameraucana traits so I’m assuming one parent was an Ameraucana…but what clean legged parent may have introduced the columbian coloring and how was the black diluted?

Thanks! @NatJ or @nicalandia

 

[-Flash-]

Hey there...really pondering if I'm gonna hang on to this roo or not.
This first pic is his dad...unsure of exactly mom but definitely a satin silkie possibly this 2nd pic.
My satin roo is the 3rd n 4th pics.
If I breed him with a silkie paint what would the result be?
Is it 50/50 satin and silkie chicks?
What colors would they be?
How do you determine if there is recessive white in a chicken?

The dad is gorgeous!

 

[Pickensandchigs]

I have a giant beautiful Buff Orpington rooster in an enclosure with two juicy Buckeye hens. What traits should present themselves in this cross, and what should I expect considering the pea comb of the Buckeye?

 

[NatJ]

I feel like what I’m seeing is a buff Columbian pattern where the black color has been diluted to a blue gray color.... how was the black diluted?

Probably with the blue gene. It dilutes black to a gray color, and affects all black on the chicken.

So a chicken that would be all-black can become all blue (gray). But a chicken that would have a black tail, or black lacing, or black spangling, or a black breast, can have those areas turned blue, like in the case of your hen.

She is obviously (now that I look closer) an EE but has a lot of Ameraucana traits so I’m assuming one parent was an Ameraucana…but what clean legged parent may have introduced the columbian coloring

At the present time, I think most EEs are not direct crosses of Ameraucana with anything else. They typically share ancestry with Ameraucanas, and have many traits in common, but are just bred to each other.

She probably did not get the coloring from any purebred parent, just from whatever genes were available in a flock of many-colored Easter Eggers.

she will have a self blue Ameraucana to breed with and I’m curious how their babies would look?

I would expect a bunch of mostly-black chicks, and a bunch of mostly-blue chicks, about half each way. All of the chicks would have a chance of showing bits of gold, or bits of silver (white), as they grow up. All of the chicks would carry the lavender gene ("self blue"), but would not show it.

The "black" chicks are what normally occur when a black or lavender (self blue) chicken is bred to another color. Your hen will pass the blue gene to half of her chicks, and the gene for not-blue to the other half of them. This is why half will be blue and half will be black.

 

[NatJ]

I have a giant beautiful Buff Orpington rooster in an enclosure with two juicy Buckeye hens. What traits should present themselves in this cross, and what should I expect considering the pea comb of the Buckeye?

Chicks should have pea combs, at least sort-of. They can look like a thicker-than-normal single comb, or like a normal pea comb, but most often look rather odd and blobby. Some people call them a "modified pea comb." The genetics term would be "heterozygous pea comb," meaning the chick has one copy of the gene for pea comb and one copy of the gene for not-pea comb. The pea comb gene is incompletely dominant, so you get a somewhat different effect when a chicken has one copy of the gene (heterozygous) or two copies of the gene (homozygous or "pure.")

I would expect offspring to be some shade of red/gold/brown, probably darker than Buff but lighter than the Buckeye color. They might show black tails.

Crossing a breed with white legs (Orpington) to a breed with yellow legs (Buckeye) should give chicks with white legs. That is assuming the parents do have the correct leg colors for their respective breeds.

Any trait found in both parents should be present in the chicks as well: clean legs, no crest, no beard, females lay brown eggs, etc.

 

[Zawisty]

She is Heterozygous Wheaten with heterozygous pattern gene, if you cross her with that heterozygous Barred blue rooster 50% of the chicks will hatch Blue(50% of them will be blue barred), 50% will be black(50% of them will be black barred) on both genders, the barred males(blue or black) will be heterozygous for barring as well

can i know wheaten hetero or homo?