Gold X Silver Seabright?

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BillyRocks

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Hi all,
My little gold seabright hen has just hatched 2 chicks (
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they are sooooooo cute
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) . The father is a stunning siver seabright. Does anyone know what colour they will be? or if there is a rule to understand seabright genetics?
Cheers
Billy
 
Since the father is the Silver Sebright, any pullets that hatched will be silver just like him. But any cockerels will be a "mix" of Gold and Silver.

And Vice Versa if the father was the Gold and mother was Silver: Gold Pullets, mixed Cockerels.
 
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Chicken genetics apply to all breeds, they do not change on different breeds. See chickencolours.com
David
 
Well for some reson it didnt work this way when I was breeding Sebrights. All chicks were seperated. And 90% of the chicks seem to be what the mother was. The other 10% were either the other or mixed. Hardly any turned out as the cock-bird.


Heres is a pic of my old flock of Sebrights that I did the experiments with.
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I've been following every thread on this subject as I'm planning to do SLW X GLW next year to get GLW pullets..
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This thread is about wyandottes but the genetics should apply to any breed (pics of result as well
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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=219083

I understand that in theory, the genetics should work as Year of the Rooster says. However your birds may carry genes that don't show.. I seem to have (according to one of the genetic experts here
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) some SLWs carrying recessive white, which means some yield white offspring (this really threw me when they hatched!) In breeding as in so many other things theory and practice don't necessarily coincide
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Also I've read that roos can have something called trisomy (as I understand it the possible genotypes in roos when it comes to silver are S/S (silver), S/s+ (mix) or s+/s+ (gold), HOWEVER this condition could make them S/s+/s+ - corrections anyone???) which would make a colour other than predicted. Some theory around this here (different colours but same theoretic field):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1641&p=2

Oh well, we are masochists aren't we
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Ryan, I'm curious about this. Could you break it down for me so I can try to make head and tail of it? Exactly what were the parents, and colour result of pullets and roos respectively?
 
I bought a Silver pair of silver sebrights that were very small. They are bred very small. More recently i got some goldens. they are closer to the size that sebrights should be.

i want to take one of my golden rooster to the little silve hen and hope to get some more silvers with a better type. will this produce silvers?

I also have a silver rooster i want to breed to a golden hen. kind af an experiment i want to try. but has anyone done this and found out what the outcome is. will i get any pure silvers?

i am still going to breed one trio true golden.
 

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