What color are these?

[Hoss1975]

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No use Epsom salts you can get it from the pharmacy,i use a couple tbsp per gallon of water.

 

[TK Poultry]

oh. So have we determined a definate color?

 

[TK Poultry]

ok I think I have a red grizzle and a red check pied do you guys agree?

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Yes, ash-red grizzle (homozygous, at that) and ash-red check splash (pied).

 

[TK Poultry]

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ok next question can you explain the genetics of them ?

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Well, they are both Ash-red, which is the most dominant of the three base colors (Ash-red, Blue, Brown). The grizzle is homozygous so that means he has two copies of the gene. Grizzle is a dominant gene. Then the pied bird, we still don't know everything about all the "white genes", piebald included. Piebald is supposed to be dominant, I believe. But you can get pieds with various amounts of white. Some are almost all white, others only have a few sprigs here and there.

 

[TK Poultry]

oh ok....well I just hope they start having babies soon! I'm so excited to have some babies!!!