What will chicks look like with a Delaware roo crossed with a gold laced wyandotte hen?

[SweetieChicken234]

Just curious how the barring works with the lacing.

 

[NatJ]

Just curious how the barring works with the lacing.

The white barring goes over top of everything else.

The overall appearance will probably be silver chickens with black sprinkles (partial black lacing, with white barring cutting it up into bits.)

All the chicks will inherit silver and lacing from the Delaware father.

They will inherit the genes for lacing from the Laced Wyandotte mother, but will probably not have very nice lacing because they only have a half set of those genes (from the mother but not the father.)

The mother is gold, and the gold/silver gene is sexlinked. So the sons will inherit gold but the daughters will not. The sons will still look silver because silver is dominant over gold, but they may show some effects of the gold gene by having their "silver" color look yellowish instead of a clean white, and they may have red leakage in their shoulders.

 

[SweetieChicken234]

The white barring goes over top of everything else.

The overall appearance will probably be silver chickens with black sprinkles (partial black lacing, with white barring cutting it up into bits.)

All the chicks will inherit silver and lacing from the Delaware father.

They will inherit the genes for lacing from the Laced Wyandotte mother, but will probably not have very nice lacing because they only have a half set of those genes (from the mother but not the father.)

The mother is gold, and the gold/silver gene is sexlinked. So the sons will inherit gold but the daughters will not. The sons will still look silver because silver is dominant over gold, but they may show some effects of the gold gene by having their "silver" color look yellowish instead of a clean white, and they may have red leakage in their shoulders.

This is so interesting!! Thank you for this information!!