The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[nicalandia]

Splash, or light blue? Apologies on the bad lighting.
View attachment 3494268I can get better pictures if needed.

Splash..

 

[Fallenone05]

Two different chicks
Recessive White or Splash?

Chick A


Chick B

Same dad (OE, blue with silver barring), mom could be anything out on the yard. I have a hen that was hatched from a white hen and she ended up Blue Wheaten.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Splash..

Better pictures.

 

[nicalandia]

Better pictures.
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Looks very much splash, but it's just a chick and eWh/e+ so we will have to wait.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Looks very much splash, but it's just a chick and eWh/e+ so we will have to wait.

Okay, thanks. The juvenile pattern is throwing me off abit, my last Splash didn't have much of it. She was pure Splash Wheaten though.

 

[ChicksnMore]

A while back I read this article about red shoulder Yokohama's possibly being splash birds:
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Phoen/ReederRedShGenetics.html

In it he says:
The dilution gene(s), when outcrossed to a non-diluted eumelanin, becomes a blue gray in the female in all eumelanin areas and is blue gray in the male with the tail growing out white at the base, with this factor often increasing over time. This is consistently the effect seen in F1 outcrosses of RSY to all the alternate alleles, when no form of eumelanin dilution is present.

This would then seem to indicate that Bl is present and perhaps the RSY is a "splash," as the f12 in outcross is not consistent with I/I+ Bl/bl+. However, the behavior of this "blue" appearing factor is not consistent with the gene Bl.

So I bred a Yokohama to a cemani to see what I'd get and sure enough, the chick was blue. As it's growing it's developed a few random black feathers as well. However I'm not understanding everything I read in that article and I'm wondering if anyone knows more about how the blue is not consistent with the Bl gene?

I have a bantam roo from a blue mottled to blue mottled breeding that has similar markings/coloration to the RSY. Could the the color genes be similar enough to try breeding together to try to get bantam RSY?

 

[MysteryChicken]

A while back I read this article about red shoulder Yokohama's possibly being splash birds:
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Phoen/ReederRedShGenetics.html

In it he says:
The dilution gene(s), when outcrossed to a non-diluted eumelanin, becomes a blue gray in the female in all eumelanin areas and is blue gray in the male with the tail growing out white at the base, with this factor often increasing over time. This is consistently the effect seen in F1 outcrosses of RSY to all the alternate alleles, when no form of eumelanin dilution is present.

This would then seem to indicate that Bl is present and perhaps the RSY is a "splash," as the f12 in outcross is not consistent with I/I+ Bl/bl+. However, the behavior of this "blue" appearing factor is not consistent with the gene Bl.

So I bred a Yokohama to a cemani to see what I'd get and sure enough, the chick was blue. As it's growing it's developed a few random black feathers as well. However I'm not understanding everything I read in that article and I'm wondering if anyone knows more about how the blue is not consistent with the Bl gene?

I have a bantam roo from a blue mottled to blue mottled breeding that has similar markings/coloration to the RSY. Could the the color genes be similar enough to try breeding together to try to get bantam RSY?

These examples aren't consistent in color.

 

[3KillerBs]

Lost my notifications so I'm making a post.

Not a question, really, but an interesting phenomenon in one of my current chicks.

Every other Australorp X California White that inherited the dominant white has been like the current white cockerel, lightly flecked with small specks of black like their mothers.

But one pullet from the March hatch is a proper Paint with the big, black markings:

She's in the "For Sale" pen with a black pullet and a pack of cockerels. I expect she'll be gone quickly.

 

[ChicksnMore]

These examples aren't consistent in color.View attachment 3494821View attachment 3494822View attachment 3494823View attachment 3494824

Can you point out the inconsistency? Sorry, I'm having trouble getting that.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Can you point out the inconsistency? Sorry, I'm having trouble getting that.

They, show black in tails, or black, & red in hackles.