The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[Perris]

Genetic it's a pretty strait forward science, Out-crosses and Back-crosses are done to identify genes and mutations. If a solid lavender bird when cross to a partridge bird produces duckwing phenotype this means that the solid lavender bird in question is not pure for the Extended Black e allele.

thank you; that's very helpful for clarifying that the dame is not pure.

The same pair also produced a pullet who is a month younger than that silver duckwing cockerel; can you tell from her phenotype what the dame's impurity might be?

 

[nicalandia]

thank you; that's very helpful for clarifying that the dame is not pure.

The same pair also produced a pullet who is a month younger than that silver duckwing cockerel; can you tell from her phenotype what the dame's impurity might be?

The dame is just likely E/eb. The pullet on the picture look like a dark partridge eb

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

yes his mum looks just like that.

I have wondered if she was not pure because her eggs are only faint blue.

If he's got a beard, it's a very small one, and not visible in any photos I've got of him.

The photo below is of the bird that was his dad, I think
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Do you have a picture of the mother? When you said lavender I assumed you meant isabel.

 

[Perris]

Do you have a picture of the mother? When you said lavender I assumed you meant isabel.

sure, herewith from last May

her shanks and feet (cut off in this photo) are grey/slate.

 

[nicalandia]

sure, herewith from last May

Yeah, that hen is definitely E/eb

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

thank you kindly @3KillerBs @RoostersAreAwesome and @NagemTX
3 different answers so far, so I guess it isn't obvious, and I don't feel such a numpty now

on the silver duckwing suggestion, I have a silver duckwing welsummer hen but I don't think she was the mum/grandmother, because this guy has a pea comb and the only hen I have with a pea comb is the lavender araucana. Or can pea combs be hidden by straight or coronation combs? (no other type here)

I think we can all agree that he has the silver gene, and must have got it from his mother, since his father is pure for gold.

 

[NagemTX]

Would this be silver leakage?

Also am I seeing things or are there spangles or mottleing on this lavender bird?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Would this be silver leakage?
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Also am I seeing things or are there spangles or mottleing on this lavender bird?
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The rooster's eye brow looks to just have some lighter blue, like his beard. I don't see white/silver there.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Updated pictures of Chameleon hen's mother.
She's changing pretty much the same as her daughter, mainly starting with the head, & face.

 

[nicalandia]

Would this be silver leakage?

Also am I seeing things or are there spangles or mottleing on this lavender bird?

No leakage, and I do see mottling.