Another Deathlayer color genetic

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Is the “golden” in golden deathlayers non-dominant? I have a couple pures and a few mixes, the rooster is a golden deathlayer. The white and black ones have a Brahma momma, the multi-colored has a white Jersey giant momma and the black one has a lavender Orpington momma.


Now what's confusing me is that the jersey giant mixed one is feathering out fairly similarly colored to a pure but the Brahma ones have no golden, only white and black. Then the orp mix is completely black.

 

[Amer]

Autosomal barring which is what the Deathlayer color is called is polygenetic, caused by multiple genes. Gold is sexlinked recessive.
Looks like your white Jersey has genes that would allow for the autosomal barring to expressm hiding under the recessive white.
The silvery looking chicks are roosters then, getting the dominant silver gene from his mother.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Autosomal barring which is what the Deathlayer color is called is polygenetic, caused by multiple genes. Gold is sexlinked recessive.
Looks like your white Jersey has genes that would allow for the autosomal barring to expressm hiding under the recessive white.
The silvery looking chicks are roosters then, getting the dominant silver gene from his mother.

So the last two(the white and black ones; Brahma mixed) are definitely roosters?

 

[Amer]

So the last two(the white and black ones; Brahma mixed) are definitely roosters?

Yes

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Yes

Well shoot looks like they’re going to new homes in a few months then (they’ll stick around until they start maturing just so I can socialize them more so that they’ll be less likely to become stew pot agressive)