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Most of the following pictures come from My Pet Chicken hatchery:
http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks-c36.aspx

Genotypes are from :
http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations1.html

Lakenvelder-pattern: e^b/e^b Co/Co plus melanizer(s)(which one??)



Quail Pattern: e+/e+ Co/Co Ml/Ml s+/s+




Single Laced Silver on e^b : e^b/e^b Pg/Pg Ml/Ml Co/Co S/S



Single Laced Gold on e^b: e^b/e^b Pg/Pg Ml/Ml Co/Co s+/s+

Single Laced Gold Henny feathering on birchen: ER/ER Pg/Pg Db/Db Ml/Ml Co/Co Hf/Hf s+/s+



Birchen : ER/ER S/S



Autosomal barred on birchen, gold, henny feathering : ER/ER Pg/Pg Db/Db Hf/Hf s+/s+


Buff Columbian: e^b/e^b/ Co/Co s+/s+


Silver Spangled on birchen: ER/ER Pg/Pg Db/Db Ml/Ml S/S

Note that Hf Henny Feathering is (incomplete) dominant.

Autosomal barred on birchen, silver, henny feathering : ER/ER Pg/Pg Db/Db Hf/Hf S/S

marbled sebright:





lavender on the right, normal silver on left.
ER, S and Lav+ and lav also possible Hf

however most likely not homozygous for anything.

Silver Quill:e+/e+ S/S+ Pg/Pg Db/Db'




Leghorns: chipmunk e+/e+ s+(background),silver chipmunk e+/e+ S(left), dark brown e^b/e^b and ?(foreground)

I want to add my chipmunk striped Large Fowl Araucana chick photo's. I have 5 right now and no two are the same. I am amazed at the subtle differences in the striping, some are complete and bold, some a snip/single line on the head, irregular jagged line, thick and thin lines, bold and fuzzy lines, all sorts of differences.

I'd love to be able to "read" these patterns if they actually designate a particular color or pattern or sex of the chick. I am particularly intrigued by the chick with blue wings.

Buff laced brahma chicks:


I think these chicks are something like: e^b/e^b, Pg/Pg, Ml/Ml, Co/Co, I/?, Bl/?
They could possibly also have mahogany, dilute, or autosomal red.

This is the chick down coloration that typically results in my best marked buff laced brahma adults.

Adult coloration can be seen here: http://www.oneearthfarm.com/gallery/chickengallery.html

Dan

Here is a chick that hatched a couple of days ago from my mixed colors Araucana coop. No clues about which hen but the rooster was the only rooster at that time. I don't have them separated into breeding pens yet.

Here is the chick

khaki and dun silver duckwing chick downs:

http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/Henk69/khakisilverduckwing/