Whats going on with this pullet

[KaylaDawn]

I bought a bunch of chickens from someone this spring. Was told they would all be purebred. Needless to say the genetics are not top notch but at 5 dollars a chick I got some decent looking growouts going.
However I am trying to figure out what is going on with some of them.
The first on is supposed to be silver laced wyandotte. Front half looks silver laced. Back half looks doubled laced something? To my understanding of genetics, pullets can only carry silver or gold. Not both so what's with the creamy color on the back half?
I'm assuming this is an automatic cull, or is it possible this will molt?
I'm trying to figure out if she's worth keeping for an new project pen.
Thanks

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

It looks like leakage. Could be something completely different, but to me, it looks like leakage. It could of been the Silver mixed with the Golden, but not pure to color.

 

[KaylaDawn]

It looks like leakage. Could be something completely different, but to me, it looks like leakage. It could of been the Silver mixed with the Golden, but not pure to color.

But hens/pullets can only carry one gene on that allele. Either gold or silver. They can't be both like cockerels/ cocks.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

But hens/pullets can only carry one gene on that allele. Either gold or silver. They can't be both like cockerels/ cocks.

How old are they? Rooster actually came to mind when I first saw them, at least on the one in the last picture. I'd say it's just leakage then. Leakage is usually an unwanted color that comes out in the wrong places and sometimes on the wrong bird.

 

[KaylaDawn]

How old are they? Rooster actually came to mind when I first saw them, at least on the one in the last picture. I'd say it's just leakage then. Leakage is usually an unwanted color that comes out in the wrong places and sometimes on the wrong bird.

16 weeks. So everybody is looking pretty obvious in what they are however totally possible to still pull a sex change on me. (Although judging how uniform the lacing is on the wings I have a lot of doubts that it could change to a rooster but weirder things have happened. )

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

16 weeks. So everybody is looking pretty obvious in what they are however totally possible to still pull a sex change on me. (Although judging how uniform the lacing is on the wings I have a lot of doubts that it could change to a rooster but weirder things have happened. )

Ok. Then gender should be determined by now with hopefully no sudden changes.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Thats is a silver with allot of leakage so prolly a silver bred to a gold

 

[KaylaDawn]

Thats is a silver with allot of leakage so prolly a silver bred to a gold

Can you break it down how this is possible when pullets are only capable of inheriting either gold or silver but not both. I'm trying to understand.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

There are other genes, mahogany and autosomal red, that can cause a genetically silver female to present like a gold-silver split male with yellow or red leakage. Between that and the incomplete penciling, though, that kinda says she's not pure for a specific variety. She does resemble what I've seen of mixes between multiple-laced partridge and single-laced varieties, like a Partridge Wyandotte x Silver-laced Wyandotte mix maybe? Whether she's worth keeping or not would depend on what your goals are with your project.

 

[3KillerBs]

Welcome to BYC!

Climate doesn't matter for genetics questions, but if you put your general location into your profile people can give better-targeted advice when it does matter.

Was told they would all be purebred.

Purebred for what, precisely?

Whether she's worth keeping or not would depend on what your goals are with your project.

Yes, this.

One of the harder things I've had to figure out over the past 2 years has been just what I want to do with my flock.