playing with feather colours

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Mon Jun 13, 2016 9:38 am

WLLady wrote:QR_BBPOST ah ha! so your rooster is dominant white on a silver background, but he is heterozygous for both dominant white and silver. so he is split silver/gold, but the gold is covered by the silver and again by the dominant white. since he is not homozygotic for either, half his "swimmers" will carry silver, and half will carry gold. and half (but possibly not the same half) will carry dominant white while half won't. so very possible to get gold offspring not carrying dominant white. And depending on the mom's contribution (remember moms will only be 1 copy of silver, or 1 copy of gold-it's sex linked, so they can only have one copy aka, be hemizygous), the kids would get gold...buff is gold based...so if he is giving gold and e+ and no dominant white gene then the kids should be gold, e+ and not white = partridge type. The faded partridge chicks may be split silver/gold and if she is recessive white the partridge from dad would be unable to be hidden by the recessive white.....so faded striped chipmunks. bet they grow up to be lemon (split gold/silver for the boys) and predominantly silver for the girls. but somewhere in the mix you should eventually get white birds....if just a few....statistically....

Anybody else feeling dizzy?

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:18 pm

This will help OC!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:23 pm

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST
This will help OC!

OK, feel much better, but now I think I may have a dilute (incomplete) Columbian chick after all??? or do I???

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 12:08 am

WLLady, there are about 12 white chicks from the white female bred to the white rooster, all of them are roosters, is that just bad luck or do you think there is some sort of sex-link at work here?

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Jun 17, 2016 9:05 am

if your rooster is dominant white on a gold base yes, but i honestly have NEVER heard of a gold based white bird that was actually white-they are usually looking like white rolled around in the dirt a lot........um.....and the boy MUST be the gold base, not the mom...
the basis behind gold/silver sex linking is that you are mixing gold and silver bases ...so males are lighter and females are darker, since all the lighter birds are boys it's very very likely-mom would be silver based. But if dad is split gold/silver, then only half the boys should be lighter, and half darker....and then sexlinking is only there in half the kids....are there ANY light girls? or any dark boys in the bunch? do you happen to have photos of mom and dad and chicks? did i miss those in earlier posts ??