I think the male would be called a yellow faced olive green dom pied (yellow face, patches of olive green on body, definately dominant pied) and the female is a normal mauve (I think).

 

What appearance can I expect in their chicks?

I think the male would be called a yellow faced olive green dom pied (yellow face, patches of olive green on body, definately dominant pied) and the female is a normal mauve (I think).

 

What appearance can I expect in their chicks?

 

 

Pictures would help, because I am confused by the "patches of olive green on body". I thought dom pied was meant to have a band of color across the body. And a yellow face pied would have a white body with or without yellow suffusion, and patches of blueish/green on the body.

 

Anyway, what I can tell you is that if both parents have double dark factor, then all the babies will also have double dark factor. (So they will be olives, and maybe mauves if the father is split for blue.)

I agree, add pictures we can work out the mutations of your birds for sure and then give you outcomes.

I agree, add pictures we can work out the mutations of your birds for sure and then give you outcomes.

 

In this first photo the hen on the right is the mother (Elly) and we've determined in another thread that she is probably a mauve. The cock is the yellow dom pied. The second picture of him is much better.

 

 

I agree, add pictures we can work out the mutations of your birds for sure and then give you outcomes.

 

In this first photo the hen on the right is the mother (Elly) and we've determined in another thread that she is probably a mauve. The cock is the yellow dom pied. The second picture of him is much better.

 

 

 

 

Now I see what you mean by patches of color on his body. But I do see the band of color across his chest, now. I would say he is double dark factor, so either green series olive, or yf2 series mauve. In the first picture, I think he looks green, in the second I think he looks yf2.

 

I'm not good at telling the difference between green and yf2, sometimes. Because he has so much blue around his vent, and because his yellow is pale, I would say yf2. But I've also heard that green series sometimes starts out with less yellow suffusion, too, so I think he could be either. (What were his parents? Cuz if one was blue and one was yf2, then you will know he's yf2. But if one parent was green, he could still be either or)

 

But either way, with both parents being double dark factor, you will only get double dark factor chicks.

 

Since the mauve hen is normal, you would expect 50% dominant pied and 50% normals.

Because he has so much blue around his vent, and because his yellow is pale, I would say yf2.

 

 

I think the picture is a bit misleading. In real life he has no blue at all. What shows as blue in the picture is actually olive too.

Because he has so much blue around his vent, and because his yellow is pale, I would say yf2.

 

 

I think the picture is a bit misleading. In real life he has no blue at all. What shows as blue in the picture is actually olive too.

 

 

Aah, okay. Then he must be green series

If the cock is not split for blue you'd get:

50% normal olive

50% dominant pied olive

 

If the cock is split for blue you'd get:

25% normal mauve

25% dominant pied mauve

25% normal olive

25% dominant pied olive

 

If the birds have genes for other mutations these could appear in about 25% of the chicks