The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[MysteryChicken]

He is barred. I'm asking about the gold outlines on the black bars

That's just a result from being split for gold, & silver. I posted picture of a Buff Orpington X Barred Rock rooster for comparison.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That's just a result from being split for gold, & silver. I posted picture of a Buff Orpington X Barred Rock rooster for comparison.

Okay. So if bred back to mom (gold), could he potentially make solid gold bars? Or just more like him?

 

[nicalandia]

Okay. So if bred back to mom (gold), could he potentially make solid gold bars? Or just more like him?

Both, he is split for gold so he is S/s+, mother is s+ so when crossed he will produce 50% gold females, 50% silver females and 50% gold males and 50% S/s+ males

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Both, he is split for gold so he is S/s+, mother is s+ so when crossed he will produce 50% gold females, 50% silver females and 50% gold males and 50% S/s+ males

Ok cool!

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

I would cross them to a silver columbian hen (like a Delaware). That way, if you get any offspring with gold, red, or yellow, you’ll know the father has the gold gene. A silver/silver rooster to a silver hen will produce all silver chicks. However, you will have to find a way to separate the lavender’s chicks from the blue’s to figure out which rooster has which genes.

Would a Columbian Wyandotte work as well? Or does it have to be a Delaware?

 

[nicalandia]

Would a Columbian Wyandotte work as well? Or does it have to be a Delaware?

Yes, that will work also.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Genetics of this one?

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[nicalandia]

@The Moonshiner

That's what I would call incomplete lacing(likely just heterozygous for PG and likely Melanotic) on Wildtype background

Full lacing is rather impossible on wildtype(e+) background.

 

[nicalandia]

Sometimes you see off colored Barnevelder hens with weird lacing. Well that's what PG-Ml looks on wildtype

 

[nicalandia]

Look at this from Cackle Hatchery, they are perpetuating that, this hen clearly looks to be e+/e+

@The Moonshiner

That's basically what's going on with your bird, except yours is likely just e+/e+, Pg/pg+, Ml/ml+