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Yellowface type 2 grey greywing cock x Greygreen clearflight cinnamon hen
The facts
Sire: yellowface type 2 grey greywing cock
Dame: greygreen clearflight cinnamon hen
Expected offspring
- lightgreen cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- lightgreen dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- greygreen cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon (x2)
- greygreen dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon (x2)
- greygreen (DF) cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- greygreen (DF) dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- lightgreen hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen (DF) hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen (DF) dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
Observed result
- greygreen dominant pied cock
- greygreen cinnamon hen
Analysis
Unexpectedly one of the two chicks turned out cinnamon.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a sex linked factor. This means that you need a cinnamon or split cinnamon cock to get cinnamon offspring. So the cock must be split cinnamon:
Sire: yellowface type 2 grey greywing cock/cinnamon
Conclusion
Sire: yellowface type 2 grey greywing cock/cinnamon
Dame: greygreen clearflight cinnamon hen
Expected offspring
- lightgreen cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- lightgreen dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- greygreen cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon (x2)
- greygreen dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon (x2)
- greygreen (DF) cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- greygreen (DF) dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- lightgreen hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen (DF) hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen (DF) dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen cinnamon cock/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen cinnamon dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen cinnamon cock/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen cinnamon dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen (DF) cinnamon cock/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen (DF) cinnamon dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen cinnamon hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- lightgreen cinnamon dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen cinnamon hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen cinnamon dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing (x2)
- greygreen cinnamon (DF) hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
- greygreen cinnamon (DF) dominant pied hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
Observed result
- greygreen dominant pied cock/yellowface type 2, greywing, cinnamon
- greygreen cinnamon hen/yellowface type 2, greywing
(C) Bert Raeymaekers
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