Comments on: Mating a black chicken with a white chicken produced chickens with dark gray feathers. How can be explained?

By: Kasey M

Kasey M — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:01:59 +0000

This is known as incomplete dominance. This is when a cross between organisms with two different phenotypes produces offspring with a third phenotype that is a blending of the parental traits. White+Black=Gray
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By: stephen k

stephen k — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:48:59 +0000

Black feathers is a dominant trait, while white feathers is a recessive trait. Mating the two together will produce a chicken with both white and black traits, with black slightly dominant over white. This gives the chickens a slightly darker gray color.
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