The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[nicalandia]

The chick will be a leaky Sumatra cross pseudo Brown Red.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The chick will be a leaky Sumatra cross pseudo Brown Red.


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That's pretty.

The leakage in the breast feathers, would that be female specific, or no? New to this crossing.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The chick will be a leaky Sumatra cross pseudo Brown Red.


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Oh those are pretty. I love when that coloring pops up in my flock

 

[MysteryChicken]

What would you refer to this boy as? He hatched a dark partridge like a couple other chicks, but barred.
Reminds me so much of my Brassy Backs. Hatched from one of my Chameleon hens.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Ok I have a black English Orpington Roo that I bred with a splash WTB to sell someone OE eggs to hatch. Today they are hatching and the first one came out yellow with a black dot on its head. How is this possible with a black roo? Would dominant white do this? Thank you

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

It sounds to me like the WTB is heterozygous dominant white instead of splash and the chick inherited dominant white from her. Pictures of her and her chick would help to confirm.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

It sounds to me like the WTB is heterozygous dominant white instead of splash and the chick inherited dominant white from her. Pictures of her and her chick would help to confirm.

Mom and chick

 

[Auntiejessi3]

The other chick is a favaucana mix, will all her chicks be like her?

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Chick fluffed up, my neighbor hatched them, so I'll get to see them grow up

 

[dcrumrin]

White Ameraucana have dark Slate/Blue Shanks. Recessive white based on the c allele has no effect on shank color

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My understanding is that recessive white dilutes shank color, although in the epidermis, making for lighter colored shanks, with lighter, or transparent scales covering the legs which can be darker in the dermal layer, same thing with dominant white . Mottling supposedly does the same thing, as does Bl, B, and maybe other plumage colors to different degrees. Hence you can have an E/E chicken with all the melanizer genes and you won't ever see a black shanked white chicken. Getting blue legs in a white bird is about as dark as you can get, and it lightens as the bird ages. The main gene determining shank color are the ones for dermal melanin and skin color. I created some white birds on black backgrounds (E/E) with dominant white and they all had dark legs, but a lot lighter than those without. Even with fibromelanosis genes, the recessive white silkie has lighter legs, lighter than the paint, with one domnant white gene, but homozygous for white have lighter than the paint.