THE GENES OF COLOR PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 June 2008

As reported by Jeffrey in BANTAM CHICKENS 1979 Published by ABA.Saiga Publishing Company, Limited Pub. Date: January 1977.

All chickens have black and red (gold). These are the only colors in chickens. All the different patterns and colors depend on either restricting or enhancing these two colors.

THE DOWN GENES

E--extended black. dominate Chicks are hatched as black. In adult hood they are black with red (gold) or white (silver) in the hackles and saddles. (polecats, furriness) My Mottles have E.

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