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Ahh that's right- the kindle burped when I was writing last night. Hairy eyeballs ;) not fuzzy- hairy. http://www.dogstuff.info/importance_of_complete_pedigrees_kral.html http://www.dogstuff.info/phenotypic_kral.html http://www.dogstuff.info/multiple_gene_traits_kral.html The link for the...

Except for my surprise chick(Dominique cockerel) all should be pullets. The Dom will leave one way or another. Three crevecoeurs and the rest black cochins. I have no plans to breed any of them, they're hatchery chicks. I have no problems with anyone breeding hatchery chicks, in fact I...

Hang on-my local vet school had a good article that should help. And I'm sorry- I try to explain in the the beginning what's going to happen later but I must have still been lacking sleep. Looking back I see I goofed and didn't put in a code. Thanks for catching that. Homozygous means the two...

Phew, after the snide comments yesterday directed at me and also the general BYC-er, I was beginning to wonde if the love of learning was absent in poultry owners. I posted an interesting (to me) article on rose comb genetics a week or so ago. Two genes for rose comb, R1 and R2. Homozygous R1...

Thanks- it's awesome to find others with a similar slant to learning. Here's another fascinating find. Though coming from dogs it makes sense. It's only the abstract but it has the important stuff. http://www.appliedanimalbehaviour.com/article/S0168-1591(13)00265-7/fulltext

This is a definition from an article in an on-line Poultry Science magazine. http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ Some of their articles are free, some not.

T I'm the same, I love learning fascinating subjects and to me genetics is fascinating. As I said in another thread- What's not to love? Gambling, high rollers, cool equipment, new discoveries, sexy articles- yep fascinating and exciting. ROFL- but I was told that epigenetics is not a...

Yes, in-breeding and line-breeding can "bring out" recessive genes much quicker. The genes are already there, it has just increased the odds of those genes showing up by finding their partner. A recessive gene isn't always "bad". Inbreeding does lessen the numbers of genes available in your...