White ameracauna/lavender ameracauna mix? What will i get?

[Faithful flock]

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Hey!
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I have a white ameracauna pullet
(11 weeks), and a lavender amercauna cockeral (9 weeks)
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Eventually, if I breed these two together what color variety will I get?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

If I remember correctly, White Ameraucanas are recessive white, in which case all the chicks should be Black and carrying one copy of lavender and one copy of recessive white. Recessive white and Lavender are (as is obvious in recessive white) recessive, so it takes two copies for them to express. Recessive white can sometimes hide other genes beneath it as well, so it's possible they might also end up with color leakage like silver or gold showing in the hackles or other parts of the body from genes that your White pullet is hiding.

 

[nuthatched]

If I'm using kippenjungle.nl right, the chicks will be black.

 

[Cloverr39]

I'm pretty sure chicks will be black and carry recessive white or lavender (I don't know if it's possible to carry both, but they'll carry at least one of the colors).

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yes, they will carry both. They are two unique genes, so it is possible for a bird to carry both of them at the same time. I forgot to add in my post that they'd carry recessive white as well, whoops. Let me fix that!

 

[Faithful flock]

Yes, they will carry both. They are two unique genes, so it is possible for a bird to carry both of them at the same time. I forgot to add in my post that they'd carry recessive white as well, whoops. Let me fix that!

Oh wow! I would have never thought of that

 

[Faithful flock]

Thank you everyone for the help!

 

[Faithful flock]

Yes, they will carry both. They are two unique genes, so it is possible for a bird to carry both of them at the same time. I forgot to add in my post that they'd carry recessive white as well, whoops. Let me fix that!

Also another quick question what if I mixed my splash amercauna pullet with my lavender cockeral?

 

[Amer]

Pretty sure white Ameraucanas are dominant white, so you’ll get paint.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Pretty sure white Ameraucanas are dominant white, so you’ll get paint.

I did some digging after seeing your post and most everything I can find is from 5+ years ago, but it's indicating that most White Ameraucanas are recessive with only a few dominant white flocks in existence. I get the feeling recessive white was preferred due to being superior at covering gold pigment as compared to dominant white, just based on what I've reading just now.


To the OP, if your bird is dominant white, crossing her to Lavender would make Paint as Amer says, which is white with varying amounts of black flecks. The chicks would still carry lavender as well.

Also another quick question what if I mixed my splash amercauna pullet with my lavender cockeral?

Splash crossed to Lavender would make Blue chicks, all carrying Lavender. A Lavender bird crossed to anything but another Lavender or lavender-carrying bird acts the same as a Black bird because of lavender being recessive, so this is essentially the same as crossing Splash to Black.