What are the "wheaten" breeds?

[gritsar]

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That makes two of us Dave!

Kev, you are correct when you said "So the wording was a little off, should have been "wheaten based" not "breed". My mind was thinking "based" but my fingers wouldn't cooperate.

I'm just curious about what a entirely black rooster with a gamebird body will look like.

Kinda scrawny, 'twitchy' in demeanor and well... black. But I'm guessing.

In other words, just like his daddy.

 

[Kev]

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That makes two of us Dave!

Kev, you are correct when you said "So the wording was a little off, should have been "wheaten based" not "breed". My mind was thinking "based" but my fingers wouldn't cooperate.

I'm just curious about what a entirely black rooster with a gamebird body will look like.

Sonoran confirmed my guess that Buff Orps are wheaten based... because it's a good base for clear, even buff color and reminded my usage of 'pattern' was confusing because there already are genes called pattern genes- nothing to do with wheaten/duckwing/birchen etc. My bad!

The link she posted is excellent for chicken genetics & has good pictures showing the chicken bases(wheaten/duckwing/brown/birchen) without additional genes. Scroll down past the chick pictures for those pictures.

For solid black rooster, need either the black base or birchen base plus extra genes to help turn them solid black. Solid black is not that easy to achieve, especially on roosters out of color cross. Your cockerel chick likely to end up with a mostly dark body, with colored hackles/saddles.

p.s. fluent in 2 languages and a pidgin language, barely passable in one(was fluent in this one as a child, forgot most of it now- see, nobody's perfect..).