American serama thread!

[catwalk]

I have a genetics question.

If I breed a non frizzled rooster to frizzled hens will I get frizzled in the first generation?

Your cockbird is f/f, and your hen is F/f or F/F. Probably F/f. The male will give f to each offspring, because that's all he has. The hen will pass on F and f fairly equally. Your chicks will be F/f and f/f. It only takes one F to be frizzled, so half your chicks' feathers should start to curl within a week of hatch. They cannot hide the gene to show up in later generations like they can with recessive genes; if they have it, they show it.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Oh, Ok, I knew something was going wrong with my thoughts, ROFL

I'm really hoping that I'll have a good hatch from Laura and that some of them will be frizzled

 

[catwalk]

You had the right idea, but you were thinking about how recessive genes work, and frizzled is dominant.

 

[cluck-cluck]

LOL, Ok, I have MUCH to learn still and if I'm going from memory, unfortunately, that's just plane foolish!

 

[Breshcandra]

Your cockbird is f/f, and your hen is F/f or F/F. Probably F/f. The male will give f to each offspring, because that's all he has. The hen will pass on F and f fairly equally. Your chicks will be F/f and f/f. It only takes one F to be frizzled, so half your chicks' feathers should start to curl within a week of hatch. They cannot hide the gene to show up in later generations like they can with recessive genes; if they have it, they show it.

Thanks didn't know what one was dominate. So this helps.The fact that the one hen is frizzle and 5 of her siblings are smooth I will be leaning toward F/f on her. The other one I am not sure. The sibling that hatched with her was booted but died about a month ago.

 

[cluck-cluck]

When breeding chickens, are there certain physical, non color oriented, traits that can be determined to be dominant over others, such as size, wing carriage, length of legs/wings/beak etc.... the things that make up a bird's type not color? It's so hard to find information on that part of breeding. I know I need a good book, but... a bit tight on the money belt at the moment (want to buy more hardware cloth, LOL)

 

[froggiesheins]

Hi all! 

I am new to this thread but have had serama for about two years now. I started with a couple frizzled hens and now have several smooth hens, two roos (one smooth and one silkied) and a bunch of juveniles growing up. Hope you guys don't mind if I pop in now and then!
Very pretty, almost a mille fleur color perhaps? They remind me of calico off shoots in my mille fleur cochin project pen. Love this top hen's expression!

Just jump right in an cluck away! The more the merrier.

 

[froggiesheins]

Thank you Aschenfire!  I just candled again this morning, and I saw something moving in the opaque egg!!!  So I have two growing!!!  The others are clearly dead, so I pulled them out now.  I'm so  happy to see a wiggly in that second egg, OMG!!! 

Breshcandra, I beilieve you get... and I could be remembering wrong as I'm just learning, 25% smooth with no frizzle gene, 50% frizzle and 25% smooth with frizzle gene.  You never want to breed a frizzle to frizzle because you end up with a "curly".  Curly birds have broken feathers all the time and can be unhealthy, but they always hatch frizzles to a non frizzle.  It can have curlys if the smooth bird has frizzle genes though.  Actually, I shouldn't answer this question, I'm confusing myself into a corner

HOORAH!!!!! e Come on little one, you can do it!!!!

 

[cluck-cluck]

I know, eh? It was a wonderful surprise this morning

only problem is, it doesn't relieve me of my anxiety over them!

I so want them to hatch!

and I keep repeating myself because I have nothing better to do (actually I do, I need to do dishes, we finished dinner an hour ago, rofl) Ah well........... LOL

 

[artsyrobin]

I know, eh? It was a wonderful surprise this morning

only problem is, it doesn't relieve me of my anxiety over them!

I so want them to hatch!

and I keep repeating myself because I have nothing better to do (actually I do, I need to do dishes, we finished dinner an hour ago, rofl) Ah well........... LOL

Go BABIES GO!!! awesome!!