adding new color to a breed

[mjgigax]

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I don't know if Lavender Silkies have sight problems but they just got recognition at the APA National in December.

 

[Chris09]

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I don't know if Lavender Silkies have sight problems but they just got recognition at the APA National in December.

I don't think APA was accepting the term, "Lavender" but would would accept the color as a Self Blue as in other breeds.

Chris

 

[hinkjc]

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No problem with it. I was actually sad to let it go. Also found buff and mottled large fowl in my flock in this same hatch. I just set a hatch from my mixed color pen to check fertility and these popped up. I hadn't intended to keep the chicks due to space and other stuff I had going on at the time. I had not seen it before from these same birds, so it must have been luck in how the genes matched up. I plan to pursue various colored araucana this year more.

 

[tadkerson]

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Leg color and comb type are not sex-linked traits, in any case.

I will have to correct part of your answer. Dermal melanin is a trait that is sex linked and is very important with respect to leg color. Blue shanks, green shanks, yellow shanks and white shanks are caused in part by the sex linked dermal melanin gene or its allele the dermal melanin inhibiting gene.

Blue shanks = white skin allele + sex linked dermal melanin allele(s)

Green shanks = 2 yellow skin alleles + sex linked dermal melanin allele(s)

yellow shanks= 2 yellow skin alleles + dermal melanin inhibiting allele(s)

white shanks = white skin allele + dermal melanin inhibiting allele(s)

Tim

 

[Illia]

Well, learn something new every day.

I'm no leg color expert, I just never recalled it being a successful way to sex birds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Becuase we need to know what breed you are talking about so we know what colors do exist in the breed to tell you which would be the best to use and what would be the best to breed with it to add the mottled red columbian color.

Also, using breed with as many similar traits and type as possible is better than using one that is dramatically different. For example, using a cochin to breed a colour or pattern into a leghorn would take quite a lot longer than using a minorca or adalusian. Using a large fowl brahma to breed columbian into a nankin or a d'anvers would be far from the best choice, also

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I don't know if Lavender Silkies have sight problems but they just got recognition at the APA National in December.

I don't think APA was accepting the term, "Lavender" but would would accept the color as a Self Blue as in other breeds.

Chris

Yes, they are recognised as self-blue

But they are still lavenders in that they are lav/lav.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It can be used as can barring, silver/gold or wing feathering. Just used less commonly.

 

[pips&peeps]

I want to add that I don't think it is possible to make a speckled ameraucana with the correct leg color. You could make them for yourself, but the would probably not be accepted by the club.

I believe the genes involved will inhibit the dermal melanin in the shanks and thus no slate legs. If anyone out there knows more about the genes, please chime in.

 

[pokey]

pips&peeps :

I want to add that I don't think it is possible to make a speckled ameraucana with the correct leg color. You could make them for yourself, but the would probably not be accepted by the club.

I believe the genes involved will inhibit the dermal melanin in the shanks and thus no slate legs. If anyone out there knows more about the genes, please chime in.

The leg color could NEVER change,or would take a long time to breed to standard?​