Plumage Colors AKA What the Heck is a Duckwing?

[EllyHood]

Is there somewhere us noobs can easily see what the different plumage colors are? Reading in the forum, one sees terms such as duckwing, splash, penciled, jubilee, etc but the only thing I've been able to find that has all these terms in one place is a poultry genetics calculator which isn't helpful when you don't know what the different genes are to begin with. Please and thank you!

 

[jmcgee83]

yes I'm with ya here. I feel like I need to be schooled.

 

[EllyHood]

I found this:

http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations1.html

 

[CarolinaHen]

You can go to http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html#Chickens and they have tons of pictures of different breeds with the name of the color underneath

 

[3riverschick]

Is there somewhere us noobs can easily see what the different plumage colors are? Reading in the forum, one sees terms such as duckwing, splash, penciled, jubilee, etc but the only thing I've been able to find that has all these terms in one place is a poultry genetics calculator which isn't helpful when you don't know what the different genes are to begin with. Please and thank you!

Hi,
Welcome to the wonderful world of poultry colors! Quiet amazing isn't it. Do you remember
the mallard ducks you would see at he part? How they had a stripe across their wing when
it was folded against its side? That stripe is what makes a color "duckwing".
http://www.backyardpoultry.com/show/Ballarat2005/IMG_1935.JPG ( picture of mallard duck)
http://www.swalefandson.com/mallardwingsbig.jpg ( Mallard Ducking wing)

Now below is a Silver Duckwing. Any gold genes have been replace by silver genes.
The neck and back have been turned silver. But, importantly, so has the triangle part of the wing. Thus, "Silver Duckwing".
http://rlv.zcache.com/silver_duckwi...ab6834e049cd9227c665a5ea9_w9jws_8byvr_512.jpg

Then there are the birds where the secondaries are black. That is called a "crow wing".
Here is a good example in a Black Copper Marans. See how the wing triangle
is black? The whole wing *looks* black when it is folded against the bird's side.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Marans/BkCopMaransC.JPEG

Then there is the Golden Duckwing. Kinda a misnomer because this bird is actually
built on the Silver gene but it has red "leaking" thru. In this bird the Silver neck is "tinted" cream.
The shoulders are gold but the wing triangle is either white or tinted with cream.
http://www.araucana.com/Araucana_Golden_Duckwing.htm

Then there is the Black Breasted Red. This is the wild type".
In this duckwing color the wing triangle is cinnamon colored.
http://www.araucana.com/Wheaten_Araucana.htm
Best,
Karen


So is the wing triangle.

 

[nicalandia]

Is there somewhere us noobs can easily see what the different plumage colors are? Reading in the forum, one sees terms such as duckwing

Duckwing Describes only the Phenotype of a Male bird, Outer Looks Only, as Many e alleles can produce the Duckwing pattern IF they remain mostly wildtype..


I will show some example of breeds with "DuckWing" Pattern...but I will ilustrate how a "Duck" wing looks like(drawing) the Number 4. which are the secondaires, should be either gold or silver, if they are Black, then they are CrowWing,


Now the Poster child of "DuckWing" Pattern is the Red Jungle Fowl..




now to different genotypes that could lead to Silver Duckwing Phenotype..

Silver Duckwing Old English Game Bantam rooster(only males will be shown here as females dont have duckwing pattern) e+/e+ S/S with the rest of genes for plumage being wildtype in nature(example bl+/bl+)




Faverolle, I know most of them look Golden/Straw, but their Genome is still Silver, so his genome would be eWh/eWh(wheaten) S/S(sex linked Silver) Mh/Mh(mahogany)




Silver Pencilled Rock Rooster, while the Pg and some other gene have encreased the eumelanin on the "Pencilled" areas, this male still shows a "DuckWing" Wing pattern, now he would look just like a Silver Duckwing rooster if he lacked those pencilling genes, His genotype is eb/eb S/S Pg/Pg




so as you can see e+, eb and eWh can produce "Duck" Wing Pattern IF the birds remain mostly wildtype(bl+/bl+ C+/C+, co+/co+, db+/db+) other combinations like e+/eb e+/eWh and eWh/eb would produce same effect on males

 

[EllyHood]

nicalandia, I was going to send you a PM, but other newbies might be interested in the answer so I'll pose my questions here.
1) What breed of chicken is it that everyone keeps showing as an example of gold "leaking" through? The one with the beetle sheen on black. (I can't find the picture. )
2) What possible offspring would a Barred Rock, Easter Egger, Buff Orpington, and Rhode Island Red make (especially if one was breading for blue/green eggs)? I'd use the chicken genetics calculator but it looks like this to me e/+-f/g/f/m=/l+kk-l=l? . I have an easier time understanding what my two year old types!
3) What causes penciling vs barring?
4) What causes colors to be diluted and how does one breed for them not to be? Ex, I love the look of this undiluted crested cream legbar:


5) What color would my EE be called? I refer to her as gray, but she has some reddish/brownish tinge to her.