Spring chick predictions
Chicken feather color is regulated by several genes, and sometimes it is hard to correctly guess a genotype from the phenotype. I’m going to make my predictions here and keep notes about this years chicks.
The chick above is a French Black Copper Maran crossed with Cream Legbars. It has the chick phenotype I expected.
This ‘lil white chick I believe came from the same cross, same parents (hen shown here). I think the hen is actually not E/E but might have a wheaten gene. That's my best guess for now anyway.
Cream Legbar Primary color gene e+/e+ (wild type)
Priscilla my Copper Maran. She has some red-brown in her neck which could indicate she’s E/Er (Birchen) but I can find nothing on what phenotype the Extended black x Dominant Wheaten would be?
Other color genes to consider, the gold gene: CL is s+/s+ but maybe Priscila is S/s+?