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[BantyChooks]

Silly girl, there's grass under those leaves too!
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I need to get new pictures of my cutie pie soon.

View only? That would realllly kill him...

Isn't that our goal here??

 

[Ravynscroft]

Taking a stab here -- what tells you that the drake has the pied gene? The white splotch on the head?
Trying to learn what to look for.

This particular drake has a few distinct signs that added together definitely say pied...

First, his neck ring... in greys, blue fawns, and pastel (apricot) the neck rings should be a thin line that is broken at the back of the neck, it doesn't fully circle all white... his is exceptionally thick, and at the back of the neck it trails upwards just a bit... then there's the white marks behind his eyes... and if you look at his underside right around where his legs are, the back half of it is white... all of these little things added together are distinct signs of pied...

Full pied would have the white from the neck ring go up the back of the head and connect with white streaks to the corners of the eyes... belly would be front half base color, back half white, with white curling up the sides of the flanks and wings would have 2 or 3 white primary flight feathers...

 

[WVduckchick]

This particular drake has a few distinct signs that added together definitely say pied...

First, his neck ring... in greys, blue fawns, and pastel (apricot) the neck rings should be a thin line that is broken at the back of the neck, it doesn't fully circle all white... his is exceptionally thick, and at the back of the neck it trails upwards just a bit... then there's the white marks behind his eyes... and if you look at his underside right around where his legs are, the back half of it is white... all of these little things added together are distinct signs of pied...

Full pied would have the white from the neck ring go up the back of the head and connect with white streaks to the corners of the eyes... belly would be front half base color, back half white, with white curling up the sides of the flanks and wings would have 2 or 3 white primary flight feathers...

Excellent.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Excellent.

Bibbed genes *can* cause the white marks behind the eyes too, but since he has a full, colored bib and the rest of those signs, it's pied...

 

[duluthralphie]

I have now learned more about DUX genetics than I wanted to ever know.....I think I need a nap to try and get the pied stuff out of my mind....



Is white the gene that "prevents" the color from expressing itself, like in real birds and animals?

 

[Ravynscroft]

I have now learned more about DUX genetics than I wanted to ever know.....I think I need a nap to try and get the pied stuff out of my mind....



Is white the gene that "prevents" the color from expressing itself, like in real birds and animals?

Rest up and when you get back I can do a lesson on bibbed and magpie patterns...

Yes, white is a cover color... can hide anything underneath it, even blue...

 

[casportpony]

Yes, white is a cover color... can hide anything underneath it, even blue...

I found this out two years ago when my new white peacock produced what I think are white eyed chicks. Makes me wonder what is underneath my white Call drake.

 

[duluthralphie]

I found this out two years ago when my new white peacock produced what I think are white eyed chicks. Makes me wonder what is underneath my white Call drake.

I am guessing a nice breast, pair of thighs and two legs to roast....

 

[Ravynscroft]

I found this out two years ago when my new white peacock produced what I think are white eyed chicks. Makes me wonder what is underneath my white Call drake.

White is recessive so takes 2 genes to express/cover... unless the other carries white, the one color you won't get from first pairing would be white... but all offspring from a white parent will carry white, so breeding the white parent back to one of his offspring will produce a % of whites...

I *had* thought blue couldn't hide, but Io proved me wrong, lol... she has blue under her white cuz bred to Snowy she produces Blue Snowy...

 

[Julie Birb]

White is recessive so takes 2 genes to express/cover... unless the other carries white, the one color you won't get from first pairing would be white... but all offspring from a white parent will carry white, so breeding the white parent back to one of his offspring will produce a % of whites...

I *had* thought blue couldn't hide, but Io proved me wrong, lol... she has blue under her white cuz bred to Snowy she produces Blue Snowy...

My Io!