#wheaten

Irish Terrier tentatively finished as well!!

Painting a rough coat like this was a great learning experience, and it was really fun because I've never tried tackling anything like this before. 😀

Pg (pattern gene) can also create patterns on the e^Wh (wheaten) base, and while these patterns aren't widespread, they are common in Cornish.

It is interesting to me that while it is the lightest e base wheaten produces some of the darkest patterns, while E^R creates patterns with the least amount of black. This is only possible due to the melanizing affect of charcoal (cha).

The Cornish version of double laced is known as "dark." Bantam dark Cornish are usually Wheaten based. Large fowl dark Cornish are Partridge based. The way you can tell what E-base your birds have is to look at the chick down. The dark genotype is e^Wh/e^WhMl/Mlcha/chaMl/MlMh/Mh. They may have some additional genes that make them darker.

The source for this photo was sus but I really struggled to find a dark Cornish bantam male so if you have a better one that you'd like me to feature, let me know!

Laced Cornish

Laced in Cornish has black or diluted tails. I have recently discovered their necks can and should be laced as well but those are the Patridge-based white-laced reds. Thanks to the Charcoal gene, the Wheaten-based bantams will have mostly solid-colored necks.

I haven't seen any black laced red Cornish, only blue laced red, or like in this picture, white laced red. The existance of blue laced red implies black laced red and splash laced red exist (and some splash laced red are probably exhibited as white laced red) but I digress.

All I have a picture of is the white laced red so I will stick to that. ("I" represents dominant white)

e^Wh/e^WhPg/Pgcha/chaMl/MlCo/CoMh/MhI/I

Salmon birds ARE wheaten :) ! They wouldn't be salmon without the wheaten! So Wheaten (eWh) is fun and infuriating because the roosters dont look much different from duckwing (duckwing is the wild type e+) roosters besides having a bit less black in the saddle and hackle feathers. In the hens though it basically extends the color of the breast over the entire bird and removes some black strippling you would see in a duckwing hen So below is a duckwing hen, notice her chest

now look at this Wheaten Marans you can see her color basically is just that chest color but extended over the entire bird she does have some other genes going on but just notice her base color. This hen in the example is gold based but what happens when you make a wheaten hen silver?

This what a silver wheaten bird looks like, look familiar? Looks very similar to to Salmon faverolles because they are also Silver Wheaten!

So You might noticed i said this bird above is silver, but she still has lots of red on her and that might be confusing if you saw my other post that mentioned silver because silver removes the red right? Well Silver only removes sex linked red but it doesnt impact other genes like Autosomal red and mahogany that much. Autosomal red is what gives the hen in the first picture her red chest and the dark red wing patch on the gold rooster below (remember this)

So here is a Salmon Faverolles

Salmon Faverolles get their nice color from autosomal red on a silver wheaten based. There is actually a couple different "types" of salmon in other breeds and usually its just tweaks to the base color like a bird not being pure for wheaten or a bird having mahogany which enhances red which is why sometimes you see lighter or darker faverolles sometimes. Remember what i said about the red wing patch and autosomal red below are some examples with a Faverolle being the last example which is just a fun tid bit and an easy way to know if your rooster has autosomal red