I agree with you on this. That makes me wonder if either there was a diff roo that got in the mix like you stated, or that the the non obvious ones are a pea comb less pronounced due to the father being a P/p+. It will be interesting to see how they grow out.
Do you think it’s worth keeping the...
I don’t know how many she hatched for her statement of all single combs. I grabbed a dozen OE eggs from her, six were brown OE eggs from her when I grabbed my ameraucana, the other six OE were in blue shells, so the rooster was a maran for those ones and not included in the photos. The photos...
I think I might be able to help with some of the mystery. To find out, the six brown egg F1 olive eggers I also grabbed from her were from that same blue rooster in question too. I didn’t know that when posting originally. Mine hatched Friday. I have some pics. I am no expert in pea comb, being...
Thank you! I’m so glad you saw the picture from the forum. I was going to reference it here. That helped a lot. I know the breeder said she was going to test him for the homozygous blue gene testing the featherIQ company now has, and I will mention to her about testing with other single comb...
So in your opinion (if the said olive egger babies are indeed his, therefore making him a P/p+), would the babies I have hatching today from that same rooster mated to a pure ameraucana hen (P/P) be viable for the ameraucana breeding program or would this make them too risky to be using?
Also...
I agree with this, but I’m not an expert either. I am curious on the expert’s weigh in. My thought is if the mother ameraucana is P/P (pea comb dominate), and that roo being most likely a P/p (Pea comb dominant/ single recessive), the punnet square would indicate 50 percent of the babies...
I am new to breeding/genetics but find it really fascinating. I recently purchased bbs pure ameraucana eggs from a local breeder. They are due to hatch tomorrow. This week she found out some concerning news. Her blue ameraucana roo, who always produced pea comb SOP babies with other ameraucana...