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Ok, so basically,
More cushion, shorter back, and broodiness resulting in less eggs go together.
Less cushion, longer back, less broodiness resulting in more eggs go together.
My questions are,
If you see one indicator of this group of characteristics in your birds, should you presume the other 2 are also there?
How do you break the influence of the three and with which one is the best place to start?
Is an outcross necessary and, if so, which sex and which compensator of the three characteristics should you look to obtain in the outcross bird you are bringing in?
I am presuming here it is easier to correct these three challenges by erasing one at a time?
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Karen
As I understand it, breeding F1 sex-links together produces get which don't breed true for sex-linking. However, I have never heard of this cross before.Had an interesting phone call just now from someone who has been making sex-links with Delawares and Buckeyes. Now I wonder, if one bred the offspring together, would they still be able to produce sex-links? It would be wonderful to have a pea combed bird that produced sex-link chicks. But I know nothing about how sex-links work, so thought I'd ask you experts. Seems like a good cross to me!
I gathered the correlation from the several responses to my question about how to get rid of cushions on females.Not to throw a monkey wrench into this, but I am not seeing a correlation between length of backs and cushions, fwiw.
Sex-links, you mean?
Not to throw a monkey wrench into this, but I am not seeing a correlation between length of backs and cushions, fwiw.
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Me either. My longest-backed pullets have huge cushions. (As do most of my shorter-backed pullets.) Frustrating.