The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[MysteryChicken]

What would Brassy Back OEGB X Dominant White Silkie produce?

 

[NatJ]

What would Brassy Back OEGB X Dominant White Silkie produce?

Mostly-white chicks with the usual Silkie-cross traits of crests, feathered feet, extra toes, possibly beard, odd combs, normal feathers.

Carrying an assortment of genes for other feather colors, Silkie feathers, not-crested, etc.

 

[kurby22]

There's a Buff Brahma bantam in the list of males. So he's also a possible source of feathered shanks.

I think I see barring on the chick, which would indicate either the Lavender Cuckoo Orpington as the father, or a barred mother. Barred mother only works if the chick is male. I don't see any barred or cuckoo hens listed.

Or is the chick not barred, and I'm just being fooled by kind of pattern that often appears in chick feathers?


I see a Splash Silkie on the list of feather-footed hens, so she could account for both the feathered feet and blue in the feathers (if the Lavender Cuckoo Orpington is the father, to provide the barring; or with any of the roosters, if the chick does not have barring.)

I think it's just chick pattern, lets wait and see how the chick feathers out in the next two weeks.

Yeah I will try to be patient! The Lav cuckoo Orpington is my only visibly barred chicken out of ALL my chickens…so if they do have barring it could only be him is that correct? Is barring easily hidden?

This is the part I was seeing that made me think barring…but I’m maybe getting ahead of myself! Although I thought I saw faint barring on this chick too one of her hatch mates, which I assumed is from the splash Silkie since it is blue with a crest and feathered feet! You can see how much further along they are too.

I’ll try to be patient and wait for more feathering in. I got super excited and just had to ask

 

[MysteryChicken]

Mostly-white chicks with the usual Silkie-cross traits of crests, feathered feet, extra toes, possibly beard, odd combs, normal feathers.

Carrying an assortment of genes for other feather colors, Silkie feathers, not-crested, etc.

Was more concerned about color, more then the Silkie traits. Was thinking making Brassy Back Silkies would be neat to do in the future.

Mostly white chicks, you mean they'll feather out white with leakage?

 

[nicalandia]

What would Brassy Back OEGB X Dominant White Silkie produce?

If she is Homozygous for dominant white(All white) as opposed being paint(White with black spots). All of the F1s will be Paint looking.

If she is paint then 50% will be solid black and 50% paint.

 

[MysteryChicken]

If she is Homozygous for dominant white(All white) as opposed being paint(White with black spots). All of the F1s will be Paint looking.

If she is paint then 50% will be solid black and 50% paint.

All my male, & female dominant whites are mostly solid white, exemptions are those with red leakage, or other leakage, or black specks in the tail.

 

[NatJ]

Mostly white chicks, you mean they'll feather out white with leakage?

Yes. Or you could call them paint, as @nicalandia did, especially if they have large amounts of black.

And as @nicalandia points out, if the Dominant White parent is heterozygous, then half the chicks will be black, possibly with leakage of gold or silver.

 

[NatJ]

Yeah I will try to be patient! The Lav cuckoo Orpington is my only visibly barred chicken out of ALL my chickens…so if they do have barring it could only be him is that correct? Is barring easily hidden?

Barring can hide on a white chicken (white bars on a white chicken are not very obvious!)

Barring can also be hard to see on red or gold, especially the light shades.
For example, the barring is much more obvious on a Barred Rock hen than on a Cream Legbar hen.

Based on the photos, I see why you are thinking barring, but I just don't know for sure. It seems like it should be easy to recognize, but sometimes I have trouble.

 

[kurby22]

Barring can hide on a white chicken (white bars on a white chicken are not very obvious!)

Barring can also be hard to see on red or gold, especially the light shades.
For example, the barring is much more obvious on a Barred Rock hen than on a Cream Legbar hen.

Based on the photos, I see why you are thinking barring, but I just don't know for sure. It seems like it should be easy to recognize, but sometimes I have trouble.

Awesome thanks for the help! I’ll repost in a couple weeks and let you know

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes. Or you could call them paint, as @nicalandia did, especially if they have large amounts of black.

And as @nicalandia points out, if the Dominant White parent is heterozygous, then half the chicks will be black, possibly with leakage of gold or silver.

I thought nicalandia was talking about the parent birds?

But that makes sense also.