Susan Skylark
Chirping
- Apr 9, 2024
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So let me know if my reasoning is off here: roux is a sex-linked recessive, for males to express it they need two copies but a female only needs one (like color blindness in people, just with sex reversed). So with my random chick assortment, anything expressing the roux trait is most likely female (like 90 percent plus of color blind people are men)? It is possible to have a male expressing it but he’d need 2 copies so statistically the bird is probably female if from a population that carries the gene but not in high proportion?
