The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[NatJ]

Partial albinos still have abit of pigmentation. Sex linked imperfect Albinism is a good example of this. Like other mutations, there can be different forms. View attachment 3362034

Bu that says "red pupils," so it's not right for your hen either. Unless my computer is really messing up the colors, her pupils are not red.

Do you have a link to the whole thing? The picture you posted only shows part of a sentence, so it's hard to be sure what it means.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Pale Pink face(Laying)

Red, pigmented face(Would use my AustraWhite's face, but I currently don't have a picture of her)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Bu that says "red pupils," so it's not right for your hen either. Unless my computer is really messing up the colors, her pupils are not red.

Do you have a link to the whole thing? The picture you posted only shows part of a sentence, so it's hard to be sure what it means.

I used it for partial pigmentation example, for the body plumage. Sex linked Albinism isn't what I'm talking about. The article is on the only form of Albinism that's been identified in poultry, so if I link it here, it wouldn't be much of use here anyway except as reading material.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Her face looks pretty normal for a bird in molt to me...

 

[NatJ]

Pale Pink face
Red, pigmented face(Would use my AustraWhite's face, but I currently don't have a picture of her)

The red is from blood, which is red even in animals with any kind of albinism. The red is not pigment, it's the actual color of red blood cells. That's why albinos tend to have pink or red eyes rather than white ones: because the color of the blood shows through.

So I don't think pink vs. red in the face tells anything about whether she is any kind of albino.

Chickens with white skin, such as Orpingtons and sussex, also have faces without pigment in the skin. They also can be pale pink or bright red depending on how much blood flow is present (more blood makes more red in a laying hen, less blood makes a paler color in a molting or broody hen, or a pullet that is still growing.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Her face looks pretty normal for a bird in molt to me...

The face in the other picture is before molt.

Here she is before she started laying. I think she's like maybe 10-12 weeks in these pictures.
Face never changed color.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The red is from blood, which is red even in animals with any kind of albinism. The red is not pigment, it's the actual color of red blood cells. That's why albinos tend to have pink or red eyes rather than white ones: because the color of the blood shows through.

So I don't think pink vs. red in the face tells anything about whether she is any kind of albino.

Chickens with white skin, such as Orpingtons and sussex, also have faces without pigment in the skin. They also can be pale pink or bright red depending on how much blood flow is present (more blood makes more red in a laying hen, less blood makes a paler color in a molting or broody hen, or a pullet that is still growing.)

Never had an Orpington with a pale pink face. Always bright red.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Well, she doesn't look that pale for a white bird to me, either, but you said she was in molt so I assumed. I think I'm just going to see myself out of this conversation, honestly, because I can see you've once again decided you have some rare genetics going on when there's a much more obvious reason for this and I really just don't feel like arguing about it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

If I breed a heterozygous dominant white to another heterozygous dominant white, I'll get some chicks that have none of the white genes, right?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Let's just forget about the subject for now.