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post #191 of 250
4/16/12 at 12:00pm


but...e^b is recessive
 

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I definitely think that fuzzy little guy could be a blue partridge.
 

 



 

 

 

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post #192 of 250
4/16/12 at 1:01pm
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but...e^b is recessive
 

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I definitely think that fuzzy little guy could be a blue partridge.
 

 



 


e^b may be recessive, but you can build a blue or black bird based upon it if you add enough melanizers.  Or the blue parent could be E/e^b or E^R/e^b.

 

If one parent is blue and the other partridge, then chances are pretty good that it is blue partridge.

 

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post #193 of 250
4/16/12 at 1:04pm

The hens look like silver laced wyne dots to me!

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post #194 of 250
4/16/12 at 2:43pm
So, just a couple of days later and this is what my little babys got going on:
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Its definitely got some blue and partridge in there. When the feathers first started coming out, they were partridge with a little blue on the tips. Now theyre blue with partridge tips. I'm guessing blue partridge is a tough color to get, and I'm a total genetics dummy, so I'm completely unsure of how to proceed from here. But, a blue partridge project sounds interesting. Would I breed this bird back to one of it's parents? Or hope I end up with another chick like it and breed them together? I've never actually bred for a specific color. Usually I just let my chickens do what they do and see what I end up with. But this is a color combo Im very interested in learning more about. So, if all of you genetics gurus could help me out, I'd be grateful!
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post #195 of 250
4/16/12 at 2:49pm

I have a question...what color would you call this EE?

 

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I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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I have five hens and two pullets- one seven year old red star, Luna, one white leghorn, Sage, one SLW, Pepper, one adorable fluffy EE, Bedazzle, and one black star, Buckbeak. My two pullets are Nutella, my wheaten marans, thirty five weeks, (who is yet to lay an egg!), and her best friend, Sammy, seventeen weeks.

 

 

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post #196 of 250
4/16/12 at 8:10pm

blue wheatenish

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post #197 of 250
4/17/12 at 12:09am

No, salmon breast means that she is not even heterozygous wheaten (most of the time). Duckwing (e+), splash patterned, maybe silver (else the neck should show gold feathers). 

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post #198 of 250
4/17/12 at 6:37pm


Oh, no! Not the melanizers!  hide.gif
 

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e^b may be recessive, but you can build a blue or black bird based upon it if you add enough melanizers.  Or the blue parent could be E/e^b or E^R/e^b.

 

If one parent is blue and the other partridge, then chances are pretty good that it is blue partridge.

 



 



 

 

 

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post #199 of 250
4/17/12 at 6:39pm

So... it could be called Splash Silver Duckwing?

 

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No, salmon breast means that she is not even heterozygous wheaten (most of the time). Duckwing (e+), splash patterned, maybe silver (else the neck should show gold feathers). 



 

 

 

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post #200 of 250
4/20/12 at 8:10pm

What would you call this guy? I know serama genes are pretty mixed up, but ... maybe mottled birchen? I'll post a pic of the hen, too, when I have one. She's very similar.

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