American serama thread!

[bobbyc1970]

oh now hes gorgeous

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[bobbyc1970]

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Bobby, all that coffee is gonna give you the jitters!

Then we could have Jitterbug and Junebug, both in OKLA!

 

[ruthless]

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Now that is a nice looking SErama! ONly 6 months old, wow!

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

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Beautiful bird Heather!

 

[Heather08]

this is that cockerals mother , i tried showing her last year and she kept getting dq because she would not stand onthe table...she just aint to sure about that kinda stuff, i started messing with her to late..

 

[ruthless]

Heather,
When are you putting birds on the auction, right away?

 

[andrea98]

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I would love to have her!!!!!

* darn iPod, it thinks it know what to say better than me grr

 

[Heather08]

im working on uploading pics and cropping ect, this new laptop has so many bells and whistles it has me a little stumped trying to find everthing lol, im pretty cmputer savy, but its got my a little slowed down trying to work it lol it will take some getting use to...it has finger identy for all my pages i visit, how cool is that?! I can jsut swipe my ring finger right hand and i have BYC pop up and index is FB, ect...I workin on it thou!

 

[smoothmule]

Heather,
What a great lil cockerel! Love his type, really nice!

 

[smoothmule]

YB192004,
Regarding chocolates (as well as many other colors). first you should understand the difference in phenotype and genotype. Phenotype is what you see visually. Genotype is what the color is genetically and that's what you have to work with when breeding.

Chocolate may be a recessive, sex linked true chocolate, a chocolate looking dun (which is what the OEG's and other breeds in the US call chocolate in their breed) or a combination of genes that end up with the same appearance (phenotype).

The difference comes with the Genotype. That just means "what the real color is genetically". Genes have rules regarding how they work. They can't bend the rules, they follow the rules without fail however, the same gene for chocolate can appear darker or lighter but it will still breed with the same rules. In the recessive chocolates, you breed a chocolate to a chocolate and you get 100% chocolate.

With dun, you breed dun to dun and get the splash version of dun called khaki so you have to use black to keep the color the way you want it to look if you like the dun color.

Then there are the ones that are neither chocolate nor dun. These guys have a mix of color genes that when mixed just right, will appear chocolate looking. They are usually just individual surprises. Some people say they are mutations and insist these colors can appear out of thin air. They are simply the result of mixed genes. Mutations are actual changes that mutates a gene to be something else and it can be repeated. Those are nearly impossible to duplicate given the fact that you have no control over which genes a chick inherits from each parent and may not be able to figure out what those genes are in the first place.