Is this chick wheaten? How did this happen?

[Sic]

Gold necked Birchen roo over blue wheaten/duckwing split. I thought Birchen was dominant to wheaten. I expected black and blue birchen? No? Is this chick wheaten? Looks wheaten to me. Is my roo carrying recessive wheaten?

 

[Amer]

Yeah your rooster is probably carrying wheaten. What is his ancestry?

 

[Sic]

Yeah your rooster is probably carrying wheaten. What is his ancestry?

He's a Bruges, purchased egg. I think he carries duckwing because when I bred him to duckwing female he produced half birchen and half duckwing pattern. Lol. I will never get rid of wheaten if he carries wheaten too

 

[Amer]

He's a Bruges, purchased egg. I think he carries duckwing because when I bred him to duckwing female he produced half birchen and half duckwing pattern. Lol. I will never get rid of wheaten if he carries wheaten too

He doesn't carry duckwing but he does carry wheaten. He only has room for two e alleles, birchen and wheaten E^R/e^Wh
He doesn't have room for duckwing too, that came from the duckwing female.

 

[Amer]

The half Duckwing half Wheaten chicks probably looked duckwing to you.

 

[Sic]

The half Duckwing half Wheaten chicks probably looked duckwing to you.

Ok, interesting. Thanks. Good to know.

 

[Amer]

Did they look like these (wheaten duckwing hybrids (plus extended black/wheaten chicks ignore those)

 

[Sic]

Did they look like these (wheaten duckwing hybrids (plus extended black/wheaten chicks ignore those)View attachment 4106276

Pretty much. Chipmunk pattern just made me think duckwing. I did get one in my recent hatch that is mink brown, I have no ideas on that. Waiting on feathering.

 

[Sic]

I was planning on replacing this roo with his son, another gold necked birchen. He was from a father to daughter cross - Birchen to birchen, can this son also carry the wheaten gene?

 

[Amer]

Pretty much. Chipmunk pattern just made me think duckwing. I did get one in my recent hatch that is mink brown, I have no ideas on that. Waiting on feathering.

Yeah, the split duckwing wheaten pattern can look duckwing at a glance but with a closer look there are differences.
I wonder if it is heterozygous for Birchen like my chicks are heterozygous for Extended Black. But I really don't know.
(All the chicks pictured are sired by a Buckeye and their mother was supposed to be a blue Ameraucana but clearly she carried duckwing and was an Easter Egger.)