The Calico/Aloha/Mottled Naked Neck Thread

[draye]

Well I looked today, the little red chicks that hatched on Feb. 2 sired by the Spangled Aloha rooster are definitely going to be mottled. So I guess the Red hens that are in the run with him carry mottling.

I don't really know where the mottling genes come from. Their daddy was an Barred rooster with orange leakage ( Orange Barred, as I called him). I figured the mom was the Red hen that I had in with him ( she was a dark red, the pullets are an orangey color red), the only other hen could have been the Mottled Partridge ( but would she produce chicks that are red?). @Kev.

Anyway though I'm excited because I thought I was going to have to wait for another generation to get the mottled.

PICS ARE COMING SATURDAY.

 

[Kev]

Well I looked today, the little red chicks that hatched on Feb. 2 sired by the Spangled Aloha rooster are definitely going to be mottled. So I guess the Red hens that are in the run with him carry mottling.

I don't really know where the mottling genes come from. Their daddy was an Barred rooster with orange leakage ( Orange Barred, as I called him). I figured the mom was the Red hen that I had in with him ( she was a dark red, the pullets are an orangey color red), the only other hen could have been the Mottled Partridge ( but would she produce chicks that are red?). @Kev .

Anyway though I'm excited because I thought I was going to have to wait for another generation to get the mottled.

PICS ARE COMING SATURDAY.

I forget what color your Aloha rooster is.. if he is dark red, then he definitely can produce red chicks with the partridge.

Other possibilites... mottle being recessive it can float down generations undetected. I think I may have read other people's experiences with mottle carriers showing some mottle signs on their first chick feathers but lose all/most of it when fully mature.

 

[draye]

I forget what color your Aloha rooster is..  if he is dark red, then he definitely can produce red chicks with the partridge.

Other possibilites...  mottle being recessive it can float down generations undetected.  I think I may have read other people's experiences with mottle carriers showing some mottle signs on their first chick feathers but lose all/most of it when fully mature.

Here he is:

I may have asked the wrong question.
He wasn't bred to the Mottled Partridge hen.

She was with a Barred rooster that had Orange (Red) leakage. I was wondering if she could produce solid red chicks with him.

This rooster ( not best shot but it was all I could find. With this hen:

 

[Kev]

Here he is:


I may have asked the wrong question.
He wasn't bred to the Mottled Partridge hen.

She was with a Barred rooster that had Orange (Red) leakage. I was wondering if she could produce solid red chicks with him.



This rooster ( not best shot but it was all I could find. With this hen:

Yes it's possible, especially if he has produced non-black chicks.

The gene Columbian responsible for the blacktail pattern cannot show up visually on blacks. even leaky blacks. So if the barred rooster has columbian, is not pure for black is bred to that partridge hen, you sure will get blacktail reds/buffs.

btw congrats on getting mottle chicks!

 

[draye]

Yes it's possible, especially if he has produced non-black chicks.

The gene Columbian responsible for the blacktail pattern cannot show up visually on blacks. even leaky blacks.  So if the barred rooster has columbian, is not pure for black is bred to that partridge hen, you sure will get blacktail reds/buffs.

btw congrats on getting mottle chicks!

Oh yes, with the six hens that were with him he produced a big spectrum of colors. I was just trying to match up moms with the color of chicks.

 

[draye]

Some pictures of the mottled ones by the Spangled Aloha rooster.

These are the surprise to me. Their mothers were just some red hens ( black tailed) that I hatched out last ( 2015) Easter. Their daddy was an Orange Barred ( see picture post a couple of posts above). Now I'm not so sure about thier mother. I thought from a red hen that was with him, then I decided it was the Mottled Partridge hen ( also posted above). Now not sure.
See notes below under next pictures.

These three are from the sexlink cross if the Aliga rooster over a couple of Barred NN hens. Same daddy as the red hens above mother I kind of figured was my silver NN hen ( again not really sure) I also had besides the M. Partridge, the Red NN, the Silver NN, I also had a Blue Red NN, a Golden Laced NN and a Columbian NN ( mother if my Cinnamon NN rooster), so any of those hens could have been the mother if the two Barred hens.

Now here's a picture if the cockerel from the hatch, he's also in the above picture with the pullets.

So now I'm thinking that the Orange Barred rooster I had must have been a mottled carrier. Thus little cockerel look like he's going to be a mottled barred color.

If you look real close I think the pullets may be mottled also as they mature.

@Kev what do you think?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

The Aloha NN babies had their one week weighing and got banded today (I think they hate me, hope they get over it). Got photos of everyone:














- Ant Farm

 

[draye]

The Aloha NN babies had their one week weighing and got banded today (I think they hate me, hope they get over it). Got photos of everyone: - Ant Farm

Cute! Waiting for the mottled. Mine started mottling up around 2 to 2 1/2 weeks old.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
I can't wait!!!!

 

[draye]

@Fire Ant Farm
Did you see my Sex Linked Barred/Mottled boy I had to hatch, posted above?