Lavender Ameraucana Breeders .... UNITE

[DMRippy]

 
I don't know why I keep thinking this! Are there any poultry colors that cannot be splits in females? 

Just off the top of my memory  silver , gold and chocolate .

Gold? Can you explain that? I knew silver and choc but have not been aware of gold.....are there more than one set of genes that can make red or gold?

 

[RFR of CA]

If you can hammer through all the headache inducing genetic talk, the Genetics of Chickencolor answers all of your questions. There is a lot of cool information anyway..... see link.

http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Just off the top of my memory silver , gold and chocolate .

Okay, so it is chocolate I keep getting confused with!

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Thank you. He is young, from last summer/fall.

He will definitely fill out, but his beard will probably not improve unless other birds are plucking it.

 

[jerryse]

Gold? Can you explain that? I knew silver and choc but have not been aware of gold.....are there more than one set of genes that can make red or gold?

I should have said red/gold . My understanding is that it is one gene and the differences we see are from other genes that enhance , dilute or modify .

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
I need to read up on that.... you are the second person I have heard use RED/GOLD as a sex link trait. I just have not seen it as a sex link gene.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I need to read up on that.... you are the second person I have heard use RED/GOLD as a sex link trait.  I just have not seen it as a sex link gene. 

If you search "sex link", there is a thread created by tadkerson who explains the red/gold and silver crossings for sex-links...
Hope that helps!

 

[DMRippy]

Thanks I have read that several times but must have skimmed looking for what I needed and skipped the red being sex linked. I know you can make sex links crossing silver and red but the silver had to come from the hen to work.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yup, that's it exactly! The hen has to carry the silver because she withholds passing it to her daughters and only passes it to her sons, and the roo passes the red/gold to both but it only expresses itself in the daughters since they didn't get the silver.

 

[DMRippy]

So do hens only carry one copy of red/gold like they do silver? I read about trying to breed out the red in another breed I have and it was a nearly impossible task since it is not really sex linked....that is the way I understood it.