what's the genetic basis of porcelain?

[patandchickens]

and thus from what other colors/patterns could it be constructed?

Just curious,

Pat

 

[LilPeeps]

Mille fleur and self blue.

 

[Vcomb]

red wheaton + columbian + spangling + lavendar (all in homozygous form) = porcelain

 

[LilPeeps]

Mille fleur is created with columbian, buff, and mottled...I don't believe you can use wheaton and spangled.

 

[Vcomb]

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buff is modified red. columbian is modified wheaton. mottled is the same gene that makes spangling.

 

[onthespot]

wouldn't wheaton be modified columbian instead?

 

[LilPeeps]

But a spangled bird is quite different from a mottled one, so other genes would have to be present on top of the mottling.

 

[onthespot]

what is the difference between spangled and mottled? Wait, isn't spangled just a black tip on a self colored feather, and mille is self/black/white tipped feathers?

 

[LilPeeps]

Here are examples spangled birds

And mottled...

 

[Vcomb]

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the gene for mottling/spangling is the same gene. they affect other genes in different ways. the mottled gene adds a white tip with black seperating it from the base color. on a bb red it becomes spangled. on wheaton it becomes a spangled wheaton. on a black it becomes mottled, on blue it becomes blue mottled. spangled wheaton hens look similar to a millie fluer hen.

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columbian is a gene, wheaton is an allele. the columbian gene modifies whatever allele it is found over, thus columbian over wheaton begets buff columbian.