What color is this, and how do I breed more of it?

[MissLavender]

So I have a meat bird project going, White Laced Red Cornish hens under a Hmong stag. One pullet turned out this lovely color/pattern that I can’t identify. The others are paint colored (white with black pigment “holes”) and a few are red partridge. I would like to base my heritage meat bird project on this color, and see if I can improve it. I think that may require more knowledge of genetics than I have, but this pullet has inspired me to try.

Here are the parents, and the last three are the pullet:

thank you in advance for your help

 

[.:Rusalka:.]

The colour of your rooster looks like mine, and it's a mix of white and partridge for me. In a group mixed of barred, white, partridge and yellow I got barred and white chicks first, I kept some for eggs, and hatched some of it, and got very nice colours, something similar to yours, but a little different, brown partridge markings on white base, and there were some very light, also some darker. ( I want to keep them so I will get a new rooster for them.) Also I had partridge pattern on black, and on yellow, love them, they look very nice.
For this colour, I would use chickens with white and partridge colours mixed.
Good luck with them, I love the look of them also.

 

[MissLavender]

I guess I’m more lookihg for answers on which genes are at play here. Like I am pretty sure there are dilution genes at play, but which ones? Is it dominant white? Is it a gene similar to BBS?
My uneducated guess is that the hens carry dominant white and/or the gene that creates blue and splash. One of the hens is red with blue where the white should be.

 

[.:Rusalka:.]

I guess I’m more lookihg for answers on which genes are at play here. Like I am pretty sure there are dilution genes at play, but which ones? Is it dominant white? Is it a gene similar to BBS?
My uneducated guess is that the hens carry dominant white and/or the gene that creates blue and splash. One of the hens is red with blue where the white should be.

My chickens have the splashed white if that helps. I'm not good at genetics of chickens, searched a good explanation on the colours for ages but found none, unlike the rabbits I had of whom I could easily write up their carried genes.
Also having the wild pattern on black and yellow makes me think it's the partridge markings that 'sticks' on other colours? I don't know.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

So I have a meat bird project going, White Laced Red Cornish hens under a Hmong stag. One pullet turned out this lovely color/pattern that I can’t identify. The others are paint colored (white with black pigment “holes”) and a few are red partridge. I would like to base my heritage meat bird project on this color, and see if I can improve it. I think that may require more knowledge of genetics than I have, but this pullet has inspired me to try.

Here are the parents, and the last three are the pullet:

thank you in advance for your help
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She is a messy silver partridge with autosomal red. She could have some other genes as well, but I can’t identify them. She does not have dominant white or splash (splash can’t be produced if one parent is black). I would breed her to her father and a brother. Try to avoid breeding her to a rooster with dominant white, as that will cover most of her pattern.

 

[MissLavender]

She is a messy silver partridge with autosomal red. She could have some other genes as well, but I can’t identify them. She does not have dominant white or splash (splash can’t be produced if one parent is black). I would breed her to her father and a brother. Try to avoid breeding her to a rooster with dominant white, as that will cover most of her pattern.

Her brothers are all paint colored. Look! They have some stray smutty grey feathers here and there too, as well as some grey/silver or golden hackle feathers.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

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Well, you can breed her to them, just keep in mind that half the offspring will be mostly white (without her pattern).

 

[MissLavender]

Well, you can breed her to them, just keep in mind that half the offspring will be mostly white (without her pattern).

Thank you

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Mama has dominant white, but that's the extent of my knowledge for that pairing