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Rosetta × Tuxedo: What Color Chicks Do You Get?

This pairing gives you 25% Pharaoh (wild-type brown), 25% Rosetta, 25% Tuxedo-type Pharaoh and 25% Tuxedo-type Rosetta.

The hatch, chick by chick

Chick looks likeCarries, but does not showEgg shell (hens)Share of hatch
Pharaoh (wild-type brown)—Normal25%
Rosetta—Normal25%
Tuxedo-type Pharaoh—Normal25%
Tuxedo-type Rosetta—Normal25%

The Punnett squares

Extended Brown

e+e+
EE/e+E/e+
e+e+/e+e+/e+

White spotting

ww+
w+w/w+w+/w+
w+w/w+w+/w+

Extended Brown: Incompletely dominant. Two copies make a Tibetan, one copy makes a Rosetta, and no copies leaves the wild Pharaoh base — which is why a Rosetta pen can never breed true.

White spotting: Dose-dependent, not cleanly recessive. Two copies give the mostly-white English White; ONE copy shows as partial white — the tuxedo bibs and patches — and how much white you get varies from bird to bird. Perfect symmetrical bibs are the exception, not the rule.

What each parent brings

Rosetta

Extended Brown heterozygote (E/e+). One dark gene, one wild-type — which is why no Rosetta pen breeds true.

Rosetta is Extended Brown heterozygous (E/e+). Because they carry one dark gene and one wild-type, Rosetta × Rosetta splits roughly 25% Tibetan / 50% Rosetta / 25% Pharaoh — you can never have a pure-breeding Rosetta pen, and every hatch is a surprise assortment. Tibetan × Pharaoh makes 100% Rosettas if you want a whole covey of them.

Full Rosetta guide →

Tuxedo

A single dose of white spotting. This is why Tuxedo × Tuxedo "throws a range — some crisp tuxedos, some mostly-white, some mostly-dark": that range is the ordinary 1:2:1 of one gene at half dose. HOW MUCH white a single dose puts on a bird varies a great deal, so treat the pattern as a probability and the symmetry as luck.

Tuxedo comes from the white-spotting family in an intermediate dose — commonly from pairing dark-based birds carrying spotting (breeding English-White-type spotting into E-family bases). Tuxedo × Tuxedo throws a range: some crisp tuxedos, some mostly-white, some mostly-dark. Perfect symmetrical bibs are the exception, not the rule.

Full Tuxedo guide →

What this assumes

  • Both parents are exactly what they are sold as. A bird carrying a hidden recessive — roux, celadon, white spotting — changes these numbers. Recessive carriers are invisible, which is the whole reason surprises happen.
  • These are per-chick probabilities, not a quota. A 50/50 split does not mean half your hatch of ten will be each. Small hatches swing hard; the ratios show up over dozens of chicks, not eight.
  • Coturnix inheritance is debated and varies by line. The modes used here are the ones consistently reported by breeders, and they match what our own variety guide says — but verify against your own stock before you plan a season around it.
  • Color only. Size, lay rate and temperament come from line selection, not from these genes.

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Other pairings keepers ask about

Celadon × RosettaCeladon × TuxedoEnglish White × RosettaEnglish White × TuxedoManchurian Gold × RosettaManchurian Gold × TuxedoItalian × RosettaItalian × Tuxedo
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