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.
Incomplete dominance occurs when the offspring's phenotype is a blend of the parents' traits, such as when a red flower and a white flower produce pink offspring. Codominance, on the other hand, results in both parental traits being expressed equally in the offspring, like when a black chicken and a white chicken produce offspring with both black and white feathers.
This type of inheritance is known as incomplete dominance, where the heterozygous offspring show a blend of characteristics from both parents rather than expressing a dominant trait. In this case, the erminette color results from a mix of black and white feathers due to incomplete dominance of black over white.
The offspring will likely be a mix of black and white feathers, as erminette coloring is a pattern that combines both black and white. The specific distribution of colors will depend on the genetics of the parent chickens.
You will get a hybrid (crossbreed) chicken called a Black Star. They are not 'actual' breeds, because if you would let the offspring have offspring of their own, they would not look similar to their parents and be considered crossbreeds. The Black Star is a very popular hybrid chicken that produces a lot of eggs.
Phasianidae, and is classified as Gallus gallus
Black chickens like white chickens and white chickens like black chickens.
Both alleles for feather color are dominant.
Incomplete dominance
Incomplete dominance
This is an example of incomplete dominance.
This is an example of incomplete dominance.
Black-Ash Inheritance was created on 1997-08-15.