What chicken breed is this?

[The Moonshiner]

I don't know why they say that when it's obviously not true.

I know why...

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

You can't hardy believe what some hatcheries say about their birds genetics or exactly what birds are used in some hybrids.
Seems you have some knowledge about genetics. Look at female gold comets. They have RIR sort of pattern but with white instead of what should be black. Like paints they got a dominate white gene from one parent. We know 2 different kinds of birds need to be used to make them red sex links. Gotta figure both sides aren't recessive white so one side has dominant white.
I do believe real RI Whites are recessive but that wouldn't add up for one RI White parent to produce every comet female to have white in tails and wings etc.
Hope that makes sense for you.

Isn't silver (visually white) different from dominant white and recessive white, though?
Or that's what I've read.

And the hatchery I'm talking about does sell RIW (hatchery quality, sure. But it's not like they're passing off a white wyandotte as a RIW)
So I don't have a reason to believe they're lying about their cross.

I thought all the bizarre sex link names were either hatchery specific, or breed-cross specific?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Isn't silver (visually white) different from dominant white and recessive white, though?
Or that's what I've read.

And the hatchery I'm talking about does sell RIW (hatchery quality, sure. But it's not like they're passing off a white wyandotte as a RIW)
So I don't have a reason to believe they're lying about their cross.

I thought all the bizarre sex link names were either hatchery specific, or breed-cross specific?

Yes silver is completely different then dominant or recessive white. It's also a sex linked gene hence why it's used and works for producing sex linked chicks.
The whole cross works because the male chicks get a silver gene but the females only get a gold gene. The hens white has nothing to do with the silver gene.
You may not a reason to believe they're lying about the cross and I don't necessarily believe they're lying as much as they just don't understand what they're saying.
What I'm saying is that one side of the cross has dominate white and either stated breed does.