What color is this?

[chicklady63]

Wow - these genetics confuse the heck outta me. What's a good book that explains them? Is there a "Poultry Genetics for Dummies"? Sure wish there was.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

google for

"Poultry Genetics for the Non-Professional" and

"Poultry Genetics for Exhibition Breeders"

Both are good sites. The first is a bit less technical if you have no genetics background.

 

[Tony]

Chef, I hatched out 2 orp chicks last summer that were mirror images of yours, they both grew up to be a lightish splash in color.

This is one of them, hope this helps

 

[Chef]

Thanks for all the help everyone. I'm sad to say the little guy went missing. I think I may have left it out when I was taking the pics. So needless to say it is gone

.

Chef

 

[mandolinmama]

blue

 

[Krys109uk]

The first bird looked andalusian blue. Sorry you lost him.


Glowworm wrote

I bought eggs from the same seller. On his hatching egg ads, he said he "created" a blue turken by crossing a blue orp rooster with black and red turkens, and his current breeding stock (all blue and NN) was what he came up with.

If these birds are as Glowworm described they are all crossbreeds with or without blue & with or without the gene for naked neck.

Having the naked neck gene does not make a naked necked bird a "Naked Neck" the breed ....(erm the breed called Turkens in US??? ) Any more than the birds without the nacked neck gene would, from Glowworm's description, be an Orpington. Genes are not inherited as a group, en masse, in that way....if a Turken (Naked neck) is bred with an orpington the offspring are not a case of either/or ....they are a jumble of the two breeds with a potentially different combinations for every chick.​