White Speckled Sussex?

[GlicksChicks]

Interesting ... when breeding chickens you never really now what you are get. It could be because of the white speckles in mom, but I am far from an expert. @NatJ will know more.

I am far from one as well. I am excited to see what he turns into!

 

[GlicksChicks]

They'd be BYM (backyard mixes). Not a real breed.

Do you know how this chick could have came out white?

 

[NatJ]

I had 2 roosters at a time. Both were buckeyes though. My hens, other than my SS, are Silver Laced Wyandottes, Black Copper Marans, and Buckeyes.

I got 2 of this coloration in my first batch but 1 didnt make it. And now in my secind batch I have 3.

I will do my best to get a picture and put it up as soon as I can!

The Silver Laced Wyandotte hens are producing sexlink chicks: sons look like that, daughters are colored about like a Buckeye or like a Speckled Sussex but without the speckles.

Do you know how this chick could have came out white?

The Silver gene turns red/gold into white. The Silver Laced Wyandotte hen has the Silver gene, and so does the chick in the photo.

Silver is a sex-linked gene, located on the Z sex chromosome. A rooster has chromosomes ZZ, a hen has ZW. So the Silver hen gives her Z chromosome (with silver) to every one of her sons, and her W chromosome to her daughters (makes them female, but does not have any effect on their color.)

 

[GlicksChicks]

The Silver Laced Wyandotte hens are producing sexlink chicks: sons look like that, daughters are colored about like a Buckeye or like a Speckled Sussex but without the speckles.


The Silver gene turns red/gold into white. The Silver Laced Wyandotte hen has the Silver gene, and so does the chick in the photo.

Silver is a sex-linked gene, located on the Z sex chromosome. A rooster has chromosomes ZZ, a hen has ZW. So the Silver hen gives her Z chromosome (with silver) to every one of her sons, and her W chromosome to her daughters (makes them female, but does not have any effect on their color.)

Here is a better picture of his wing design and a picture of his comb. He doesn't have much for the shape of a comb, just a pink bump on his head.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Sussex is the bred, speckled is the color. If the chicks hatch out a different color they cant be speckled sussex. If it helps, think of it kinda like dogs. A yellow lab is a color variety, not a breed. Labrador retriever is the breed and Yellow is the color. You wouldn't call a black lab a yellow lab just because the mother was a yellow lab.

If the sire is a buckeye then the chicks are mixed breeds. If we think of it kind of like dogs again it would be like breeding a labrador retriever to a corgi. You wouldn't call the offspring labradors or corgies, they would be mixed breeds.

 

[NatJ]

Here is a better picture of his wing design and a picture of his comb. He doesn't have much for the shape of a comb, just a pink bump on his head.

He has a walnut comb (genetically, rose comb from the Wyandotte mother, pea comb from the Buckeye father, combined to make the shape he's got.)

 

[GlicksChicks]

He has a walnut comb (genetically, rose comb from the Wyandotte mother, pea comb from the Buckeye father, combined to make the shape he's got.)

Oh! I am going to have to look that up! I am excited to see what he grows in to.