Best way to start a Ermine Wyandottes project?

[WillowMoonWyandottes]

I'm thinking about starting a ermine Wyandotte project, what's the best way to start? I don't know much about genetics and how the ermine color works so of someone could try to explain it that would be great.

 

[Amer]

Ermine is also known as paint. I consider paint to be a better word for it since "ermine" is used to describe Columbian in Europe. For paint you need to breed a dominant white with a recessive white bird.
Okay, so most Wyandottes are recessive white but white Wyandottes (at least the large fowl) often carry the dominant white gene. This is only discovered once they are crossed with other colors. So I would recommend finding a Wyandotte breeder who has discovered the dominant white gene in their lines, for example, Abigail Wojteki, and ask if you can get some birds that might have the dominant white gene. She might not know which.
In that case ask for eggs and hatch a bunch of whites and then test them on some blacks until you get find a bird that produces paint offspring.
Paint might not actually work on Wyandottes, to be honest.
Black Wyandottes are partridge based rather than Extended black based which means the black spots may not come through.

 

[WillowMoonWyandottes]

Ermine is also known as paint. I consider paint to be a better word for it since "ermine" is used to describe Columbian in Europe. For paint you need to breed a dominant white with a recessive white bird.
Okay, so most Wyandottes are recessive white but white Wyandottes (at least the large fowl) often carry the dominant white gene. This is only discovered once they are crossed with other colors. So I would recommend finding a Wyandotte breeder who has discovered the dominant white gene in their lines, for example, Abigail Wojteki, and ask if you can get some birds that might have the dominant white gene. She might not know which.
In that case ask for eggs and hatch a bunch of whites and then test them on some blacks until you get find a bird that produces paint offspring.
Paint might not actually work on Wyandottes, to be honest.
Black Wyandottes are partridge based rather than Extended black based which means the black spots may not come through.

Okay, thanks for the information!

 

[WillowMoonWyandottes]

Ermine is also known as paint. I consider paint to be a better word for it since "ermine" is used to describe Columbian in Europe. For paint you need to breed a dominant white with a recessive white bird.
Okay, so most Wyandottes are recessive white but white Wyandottes (at least the large fowl) often carry the dominant white gene. This is only discovered once they are crossed with other colors. So I would recommend finding a Wyandotte breeder who has discovered the dominant white gene in their lines, for example, Abigail Wojteki, and ask if you can get some birds that might have the dominant white gene. She might not know which.
In that case ask for eggs and hatch a bunch of whites and then test them on some blacks until you get find a bird that produces paint offspring.
Paint might not actually work on Wyandottes, to be honest.
Black Wyandottes are partridge based rather than Extended black based which means the black spots may not come through.

I saw someone had an Ermine Brahma Project, what would be the outcome color wise if I bred an ermine brahma to a black or white Wyandotte?

 

[Amer]

I saw someone had an Ermine Brahma Project, what would be the outcome color wise if I bred an ermine brahma to a black or white Wyandotte?

Since Wyandottes are recessive white I wouldn't advise breeding paint with it but a paint Brahma crossed with a black Wyandotte would give you paints and blacks.