Lightgreen cock x Darkgreen opaline-cinnamon hen
The facts
Sire: lightgreen cock
Dame: darkgreen opaline-cinnamon hen
Expected offspring
- darkgreen cock/opaline-cinnamon
- lightgreen cock/opaline-cinnamon
- darkgreen hen
- lightgreen hen
Observed result
- skyblue cinnamon cock
Analysis
There are two unexpected factors in the offspring: blue and cinnamon.
Blue
Both parents need to be split blue. Split blue meaning that they both the blue factor hidden.
Sire: lightgreen cock/blue
Dame: darkgreen opaline-cinnamon hen/blue
Cinnamon
Mum is cinnamon, but to get a cinnamon cock also the father needs to carry a cinnamon factor
Sire: lightgroen cock/blue, cinnamon
Conclusion
Sire: lightgreen cock/blue, cinnamon
Dame: darkgreen opaline-cinnamon hen/blue
Expected offspring
- lightgreen cock/opaline-cinnamon
- lightgreen cock/blue, opaline-cinnamon (x2)
- skyblue cock/opaline-cinnamon
- darkgreen cock/opaline-cinnamon
- darkgreen cock/blue, opaline-cinnamon (x2)
- cobalt cock/opaline-cinnamon
- lightgreen cinnamon cock/opaline
- lightgreen cinnamon cock/blue, opaline (x2)
- skyblue cinnamon cock/opaline
- darkgreen cinnamon cock/opaline
- darkgreen cinnamon cock/blue, opaline (x2)
- cobalt cinnamon cock/opaline
- lightgreen hen
- lightgreen hen/blue (x2)
- skyblue hen
- darkgreen hen
- darkgreen hen/blue
- cobalt hen
- lightgreen cinnamon hen
- lightgreen cinnamon hen/blue (x2)
- skyblue cinnamon cock
- darkgreen cinnamon hen
- darkgreen cinnamon hen/blue (x2)
- cobalt cinnamon hen
(x2) means twice as probale as the other lines.
The blue factor and the darkfactor are linked (see Recombination so not all lines are equally likely.
The skyblue cinnamon cock out of this pair must be split opaline too since mum is opaline
(C) Bert Raeymaekers