Wyandottes: Gold-laced/silver laced cross?

[ceyoung77]

I'm curious, and don't understand the genetics but am really intrigued. Would a gold laced Wyandotte roo cross with a silver laced Wyandotte hen (or GLW hen x SLW roo) result in a blue laced red ?
Where might an individual find this genetic information
Thanks!

 

[NatJ]

Both of those have black lacing, so the chicks would also have black lacing, not blue lacing. You'll get silver laced roosters (with bits of gold or red showing through) from either cross, but whether the hens are gold or silver will depend on their father: the daughters will match him.

Where to get information depends on what level of information you're after.

For your specific chickens, I suggest this:
https://minifluffsrabbitry.weebly.com/wyandotte-chicken-color-genetics.html

If you want a LOT more details about chicken genetics, this site is fairly good:
http://kippenjungle.nl/sellers/page0.html
https://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
That's one page with lots of links, and one genetics calculator to play with.
But beware: that site is either so fascinating that a person can happily waste hours of time, or so difficult it's no fun at all, depending on the individual

Genetically, your question involves gold/silver, blue, lacing (caused by several genes), and a bunch of unknown modifiers to make the gold, silver, and lacing look right. Gold/silver is a sexlinked gene.

 

[ceyoung77]

Both of those have black lacing, so the chicks would also have black lacing, not blue lacing. You'll get silver laced roosters (with bits of gold or red showing through) from either cross, but whether the hens are gold or silver will depend on their father: the daughters will match him.

Where to get information depends on what level of information you're after.

For your specific chickens, I suggest this:
https://minifluffsrabbitry.weebly.com/wyandotte-chicken-color-genetics.html

If you want a LOT more details about chicken genetics, this site is fairly good:
http://kippenjungle.nl/sellers/page0.html
https://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
That's one page with lots of links, and one genetics calculator to play with.
But beware: that site is either so fascinating that a person can happily waste hours of time, or so difficult it's no fun at all, depending on the individual

Genetically, your question involves gold/silver, blue, lacing (caused by several genes), and a bunch of unknown modifiers to make the gold, silver, and lacing look right. Gold/silver is a sexlinked gene.

Thanks for all the information! I've been working through different combinations with the genetics calculator, I'm really interested in getting a variety of Wyandottes and crossing them.
Thoughts?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thanks for all the information! I've been working through different combinations with the genetics calculator, I'm really interested in getting a variety of Wyandottes and crossing them.
Thoughts?

What varieties are you planning on crossing?

 

[ceyoung77]

So far I've been crossing the BLRW hen with the SLW roo, and line crossing a couple times, then adding the GLW hen in ( all on the chicken calculator). It's all very interesting to me.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

So far I've been crossing the BLRW hen with the SLW roo, and line crossing a couple times, then adding the GLW hen in ( all on the chicken calculator). It's all very interesting to me.

With those crossings, you can create gold, varying shades of red, silver, gold/silver split (roos only), blue, black, and splash. Add in partridge and solid colors, like black, and you can get some interesting color crosses.

 

[ceyoung77]

I really like the idea of the splash and how it is passed along.

 

[NatJ]

Thanks for all the information! I've been working through different combinations with the genetics calculator, I'm really interested in getting a variety of Wyandottes and crossing them.

Glad I could help--genetics can be so much fun!

So far I've been crossing the BLRW hen with the SLW roo, and line crossing a couple times, then adding the GLW hen in ( all on the chicken calculator). It's all very interesting to me.

That idea inspired me to google for blue laced silver wyandottes--I never thought to look before, but they are just as pretty as all the other laced colors

 

[ceyoung77]

Another question:
How would an individual achieve brown, is it a variation of red?

 

[NatJ]

Another question:
How would an individual achieve brown, is it a variation of red?

Probably.

I think of "red" and "gold" as being names for specific shades of brown

I know the mahogany gene makes the color be darker and maybe redder, but I'm pretty sure there are a bunch of other genes that contribute to the exact shade of red/brown--and most of them just haven't been identified and named.