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Quote: I'll stay away from your other questions, but this one is "no". Barring "B" is dominant over not barred "b" so all it takes is one copy of B to be present for the chicken to be barred. But the kicker is that the Rooster has two copies of that gene, but a hen only has one. The rooster...

Quote: ok thanks on the combs, but in birds, the female has the XY (some use XZ), the male XX. so if the barring is carried on the sex chromosome (meaning it's a sex-linked trait) then the male would have 2 copies to pass, so if the female donates a Y chromosome to the male's X(barred)...

Ok, reading up on comb genetics, I still have a few questions... I have eggs in the 'bator right now, that are potential crosses between several bantam breeds. my roos: black Japanese, Sultan(white), and possibly (but doubtful) my crele OEGB (low man on the totem pole, the girls don't like...