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The offspring are black feathered because the black feather gene is dominant

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Q: A black erminette chicken is crossed with a white erminette chicken what color are the offspring?
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What is a Erminette chicken?

An Erminette chicken is a chicken with a gene for black feathers and a gene for white feathers. Since the genes are co-dominant, the Erminette chicken has black and white feathers, rather than one or the other or grey.


What is the genotype for erminette chickens?

An erminette chicken would carry both a black gene and a white gene. The erminette chicken represents the heterozygous phenotype.


What breed is a hebden black chicken?

Phasianidae, and is classified as Gallus gallus


A purebred chicken with white feathers is crossed with a purebred chicken that has black feathers. Each of their offspring has both black and white feathers. Why does this happen?

Both alleles for feather color are dominant.


A purebred chicken with white feathers is crossed with a purebred chicken with black feathers.All the offspring have both black and white feathersWhy did this happen?

Black chickens like white chickens and white chickens like black chickens.


What would you get if you crossed a black copper maran with a black silkie chicken?

A silky black copper chicken.


A cross of a black chicken with a white chicken produces all blue offspring this type of inheritance is known as?

This cross of a black chicken with a white chicken producing an all black and white speckled offspring is an inheritance known as co-dominant inheritance.


A cross of a white hen with a black rooster produces erminette color offspring both back and white feathers this type of inheritance is known as?

polygenic inheritance


What percent chance of having offspring having white hair when a purebred black rabbit is crossed with a hybrid black rabbit?

50%


What is the genotype of a black guinea pig if it is crossed with a whites guinea pig and they have 4 offspring that are black and 2 offspring are white?

Assuming black allele exhibits complete dominance and the white allele is recessive, the genotype is Bb.


When a black guinea pig is crossed with a white guinea pig and the litter contains a white offspring the genotype of the black haired parent contains?

4 offsprings


In birds black feathers are dominant over brown feathers Two birds with black feathers were crossed They had an offspring with brown feathers How is this possible?

Both parents were heterozygous (Bb). The offspring would statistically be: BB, Bb, Bb, and bb. All but the bb offspring would be black and the bb would be brown.