sure go ahead
http://ps.fass.org/content/62/8/1539.short
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/2/91.short
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/72/2/121.short
Tim
second question- Did anybody hatch white females and normal colored males from mating a white male with a normal colored female.
third question- Has anybody mated a white crested legbar with a silkie? If so were all of the chicks white?
Tim
Miss Henny,
The auto-sexing is not the problem. The auto-sexing trait expressed in chick down is due to the wild type E locus allele. The gene causing the white adult plumage may be the problem.
Enola,
The ear tuft gene is the lethal gene. What most people do not know is that the tuft...
I made the birds from crossing white leghorns, easter eggers and german spitzauben. My point is that I can make birds that look like a white legbar that are not from legbar. The autosexing down is a characteristic of legbar and not the bird I produced.
Tim
If the legbar breeders decide they want to standardize the white legbar make sure they include that the down phenotype is auto-sexing. Unscrupulous individuals may use dominant white to produce a white legbar.
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