Thank you, I thought that barring was dominant/ a sex linked trait. I was trying to test my hand at it, haha. When this guy hatched I got VERY confused.
Barring is a dominant sex-linked gene. Any cockerels from your barred hen will be barred. However, it may be hard to tell if some of the chicks are barred. Barring doesn’t only happen on black.
This may be a difficult question to answer, but how can you tell if she has silver? In real life, she has soft barring and appears nearly identical to a barred rock in pattern. Is silver found appearing as a gray in the white feathers?
Silver in chickens is white. Though most of her white is due to the barring gene. However, all chickens are either gold or silver. Hens can only have one silver gene or one gold gene, while roosters can have two gold genes, two silver genes, or one gold and one silver gene. I’m guessing she’s silver because her chick looks silver, and it couldn’t have come from the pure gold father. It does look like she may have some silver leakage around her head, too, and she certainly doesn’t look gold. Also, silver is common in black barred chickens, because pure black barreds are usually silver.
