Tim,
What would happen if I bred that wanna-be Wheaten roo I posted a page back, to an actual wheaten pullet? I assume it may work in reverse as the BCMs that produce Wheaten sports? That some would be a mix, some would be BCM looking, and some would look like Wheatens? I went back yesterday and looked at his baby pics. That roo was very dark, not white on the face, and only a white belly. He also had slate colored legs. Then looking at his pic at I think, 4 weeks, I noticed he showed cinnamon coloring in the wing where the primaries were coming in! I had never noticed it before, because I wasn't looking for it. Then when he turns 2 years old, the cinnamon shows up again? It is something I am just going to do, my curiousity won't let it go, and chicken mistakes can always be eaten. So, I guess my question is, can the BCM be totally bred out at some point with this type of a cross, or is that ER always going to be in there to rear it's head somewhere else down the road? My thinking here is to breed the best looking Wheaten cockeral from that clutch back to his Wheaten mother, and to any of his Wheaten sisters. I would think the sibling breeding would show me in short order how that was going to turn out? Am I totally confused and heading down the wrong path, or is this a possible way to see what will happen? As you can tell, I am no genetics whiz, but dabbling and experimenting is always fun!
What would happen if I bred that wanna-be Wheaten roo I posted a page back, to an actual wheaten pullet? I assume it may work in reverse as the BCMs that produce Wheaten sports? That some would be a mix, some would be BCM looking, and some would look like Wheatens? I went back yesterday and looked at his baby pics. That roo was very dark, not white on the face, and only a white belly. He also had slate colored legs. Then looking at his pic at I think, 4 weeks, I noticed he showed cinnamon coloring in the wing where the primaries were coming in! I had never noticed it before, because I wasn't looking for it. Then when he turns 2 years old, the cinnamon shows up again? It is something I am just going to do, my curiousity won't let it go, and chicken mistakes can always be eaten. So, I guess my question is, can the BCM be totally bred out at some point with this type of a cross, or is that ER always going to be in there to rear it's head somewhere else down the road? My thinking here is to breed the best looking Wheaten cockeral from that clutch back to his Wheaten mother, and to any of his Wheaten sisters. I would think the sibling breeding would show me in short order how that was going to turn out? Am I totally confused and heading down the wrong path, or is this a possible way to see what will happen? As you can tell, I am no genetics whiz, but dabbling and experimenting is always fun!