Gender specific color

[hunthrail]

That is a characteristic specific to duckwing pattern. Any hen with a salmon breast and a different colored body is duckwing-based.
Partridge is characterized by having the same breast color as the body color.
Read the first post of this thread for more
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-genetics-blog.1635047/post-27916072

Ok, so this wouldn't be considered Partridge because her breast and body do not match then

This is my genetic mystery Orp Becky. Shes from a chocolate cuckoo orp roo and chocolate orp hen. Everyone else from her clutch was normal chocolate. She's the oddballl out.

 

[Amer]

A second big question that I'll add in . When I see posts asking if a bird is OE or EE , are there any patterns/colors that would only appear with one or the other ? Or is purely determined based on structure? Or is it just guess work and you wait until the lay and decide based on egg color ? I know a few different birds can be used to make OEs vs whats used to make EEs . Since both are mixes of all sorts, I know really they can look like anything , most of the EEs that I've seen,do tend to resemble Ameraucanas closely, but I've also seen some OEs be the same.

EEs often share similar traits so certain hatchery strains of EE are almost like a landrace with a beard, pea comb, and blue eggs, dark shanks but some exceptions.
Ameraucanas are actually just these “landrace” EEs bred to a standard. They just removed the exceptions.
Sometimes “EE” is also used for crosses and mixed breeds laying blue eggs though, so an EE is not a breed, just any non purebred chicken that lays blue eggs.
And Olive Eggers are a crossbreed that lays green eggs.

Ok, so this wouldn't be considered Partridge because her breast and body do not match then

This is my genetic mystery Orp Becky. Shes from a chocolate cuckoo orp roo and chocolate orp hen. Everyone else from her clutch was normal chocolate. She's the oddballl out.

I think she’s actually a chocolatexbuff cross, not partridge.
@NatJ what do you think

 

[Amer]

This is a blackxbuff cross btw

 

[NatJ]

I think she’s actually a chocolatexbuff cross, not partridge.
@NatJ what do you think

For the amount of gold on the front half of her, you might be be right, but I don't know for sure.

 

[hunthrail]

I think she’s actually a chocolatexbuff cross, not partridge.
@NatJ what do you think

There's only 2 rooster's on the farm she came from , a chocolate orp and the chocolate cuckoo orp. And they're in different enclosed runs with their hens. The chocolate roo is with molted and splash hens. The cuckoo is with only chocolate.

 

[NatJ]

This is my genetic mystery Orp Becky. Shes from a chocolate cuckoo orp roo and chocolate orp hen. Everyone else from her clutch was normal chocolate. She's the oddballl out.

There's only 2 rooster's on the farm she came from , a chocolate orp and the chocolate cuckoo orp. And they're in different enclosed runs with their hens. The chocolate roo is with molted and splash hens. The cuckoo is with only chocolate.

In that case, her father and her mother are carrying some recessive genes, and your bird Becky inherited those recessive genes from both parents. The others in her clutch are showing the dominant genes that the parents are also showing (but some of them might also be carrying the recessive genes that Becky inherited, although they are not visible because the dominant genes hide them.)

 

[hunthrail]

View attachment 3905384This is a blackxbuff cross btw

I found this , says they're chocolate × buff .

 

[hunthrail]

In that case, her father and her mother are carrying some recessive genes, and your bird Betty inherited those recessive genes from both parents. The others in her clutch are showing the dominant genes that the parents are also showing (but some of them might also be carrying the recessive genes that Becky inherited, although they are not visible because the dominant genes hide them.)

Is DNA color testing available for chickens? I wouldn't mind finding out what's going on with her. Her next to her sister Beverly.

 

[NatJ]

Is DNA color testing available for chickens? I wouldn't mind finding out what's going on with her. Her next to her sister Beverly.

Genetic testing for chickens is mostly not available.

In the last few years, a small number of tests have become available from here:
https://iqbirdtesting.com/
I see tests for the blue egg gene, recessive white gene, lavender gene, and it says one is "coming soon" for fibromelanosis.

None of those are going to be helpful with your chicken mystery. But if the company continues to add tests, at some point they may have one that would help.