A&M coloration dominant?

[beepbeepinajeep]

I am hatching out the eggs from my first little flock of coturnix. For a while, I had our "regular" coturnix and A&M's together... some of you may remember I have since separated them b/c of scalping of the A&Ms.

So, if I have little yellow babies hatching, is that indicative of A&M coloration? Is it a A&M+A&M or could it be wild color+A&M?

Thanks

It is exciting to know my eggs are fertile!

 

[monarc23]

Brown can carry A & M but it is not dominant

Say a Brown carries A & M (or english white) and you mate it to an A& M or english white.


A small number of that birds chicks have the opportunity to become A & M (or english white)!

Brown is dominant over A & M (or english white) so it's color takes over mostly, but if it carries the the white gene and it mixes with the white gene of the other bird you get a resulting white chick and yes yellow is indicitive of white OR tux if it's got a lot o fblack on its back which yes theres even a LOWER percentage that could come out tux as the white bird automatically carries the tibetan (range) gene from what i read on genetic thingies

I've never had brown to A & M produce tux but others have it does not produce a brown tux though it produces a range (tibetan) tux

Or you had a dominant A & M roo that was breeding the A & M hens

Either way it takes 2 whites hidden or visual to produce white

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Thanks I am excited to see what they look like as they grow since they could be tuxedo. They sure are cute

 

[shelleyd2008]

Actually, if you have browns that carry white, and you breed them to white, there should be about 50% white chicks from the breeding. 2 birds that are brown but both carry a gene for white would get you approximately 75% browns (with 50% of these being carriers for white), and 25% white.

 

[monarc23]

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well ofcourse that's what i meant too my last sentence

"Either way it takes 2 whites hidden or visual to produce white"

so two browns HIDING white

 

[shelleyd2008]

Quote:
well ofcourse that's what i meant too my last sentence

"Either way it takes 2 whites hidden or visual to produce white"

so two browns HIDING white

Sorry, algebra is one of my classes right now, and this is a lot like an algebra problem....guess I was just practicing

(b+w) x (b+w) = bb/bw/bw/ww
b=brown
w=white
They have to have 2 genes for white (w) to show white

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Makes sense I have a son with a recessive condition so I followed ya'll

I am having a great hatch, looks like I tried dry hatching this time & this is the first batch of eggs from this covy that I have set.