Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[marchick]

Black chicks with one copy of recessive white .

Then when I breed them back! What will I end up with?

 

[jerryse]

Then when I breed them back! What will I end up with?

When bred back to white you get 50% white chicks and 50% black chicks carrying 1 copy recessive white .

 

[marchick]

When bred back to white you get 50% white chicks and 50% black chicks carrying 1 copy recessive white .

Got it! Thank you Jerry!

 

[marchick]

So did anyone else learn anything other then me? Everyone else on this thread already knows!

Sorry everyone for putting you all through that!!!! Thank You everyone for your help!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Yay, marchick!!

 

[marchick]

Yay, marchick!!

Ravyn You can slap me now!!!! If you don't! I know scflock will!

 

[jerryse]

You are welcome . We all start not knowing .

 

[samouw]

Yes,Thank you! I understand that but then how would this chick be split for white? It is white! That is where I am confused.

Well, this chicks, if it is recessive white (which seems to be the consensus), isn't split. It is white. Both of its parents had to be splits, however - or that little chickie wouldn't now have two copies of the white recessive gene necessary to actually be (or express) white.

 

[jerryse]

Well, this chicks, if it is recessive white (which seems to be the consensus), isn't split. It is white. Both of its parents had to be splits, however - or that little chickie wouldn't now have two copies of the white recessive gene necessary to actually be (or express) white.

Yep just like those little red headed kids that pop up in a family . Everyone is like now where did that come from . Parents carried that recessive gene .

 

[samouw]

Yep just like those little red headed kids that pop up in a family . Everyone is like now where did that come from . Parents carried that recessive gene .

So, that's what happened to me! Momma kept talking about that red-headed milkman....









(I'm just kidding, folks LOL - My mother would roll over in her grave if she heard me)