Awesome response, thank you so much!
Definitely wasn’t expecting the hen to be the potential culprit. Perhaps worth a call to her original breeder to inquire.
As for the roo, if he is in fact Silver/gold, is he good for breeding to anybody? Even to other silvers for a couple generations...
Update: I was able to get these photos from the breeder of the roo. His sisters (still pullets) were all this wheaten colouring, and the males looked like him. It’s like there’s a strange silvery-blue-splash wheaten melangé happening.
^ Roo. I suspected his recessive gold from his colouring not being quite so “silver” but is his belly potentially showing more blue?he doesn’t have the typical duckwing “tip” either.
^ momma blue
^ grey and black penguins
^ baby in question with black leakage? splash? wheaten? (ignore...
Disclaimer, I find genetics and breeding for plumage and egg colour altogether complicated yet fascinating but have no plans for showing.
I hatched out 11 chicks from my blue ameraucana hen. I am fairly confident in her genetics as she was purchased from a breeder that shows her birds. She was...