Araucana thread anyone?

[Frazzemrat1]

Yeah, I couldn't see any mottling...but I've also been in denial for over a year on needing glasses .

If the gene is there that's good. All it would take is to find another mottled bird or even one with a recessive gene to start some mottled offspring. If you are in to that kind of thing.

Well, if I'm right and he is male and not a pullet... And he carried the mottling gene, what would happen if I bred him to the paint? Is paint a version of mottling? or are they unrelated...?

 

[Trish1974]

Well, if I'm right and he is male and not a pullet... And he carried the mottling gene, what would happen if I bred him to the paint? Is paint a version of mottling? or are they unrelated...?

No, they are two different things. Both birds would need a mottling gene to get mottled offspring. I'm not sure if paint breeds true since its a cross of colors. I guess it would also depend if the white used to get paint is dominant or recessive. I know its a popular color among Silkies .

 

[Trish1974]

I found this:
ON THE WEB DEFINITION ~
Paints are genetically a black chicken that carries one dominant white gene. One dominant white gene does not always cover all the black- so some black will leak through the white- this produces a paint. If a black bird carries two dominant white genes the black is usually completely covered so you get a white bird and not a paint. The trick is to breed the birds so that you produce very few birds that carry two dominant white genes.

There is another gene that can cause a bird to be white- it is the recessive white gene. Paints are not recessive white. If you cross a recessive white to a black, all of the offspring should be black. There is the chance that the black can carry one recessive white gene; then 1/2 the chicks will be recessive white and 1/2 will be black. NO PAINTS WILL BE PRODUCED ONLY WHITES. The black offspring from this cross will be carriers and should not be used to breed for paints.

paint x paint = about 1/2 paint offspring, some white offspring and some black offspring

paint x white ( dominant white)= about 1/2 paint and 1/2 white

white (dominant white) x black = most will be paints ( birds carrying one dominant white gene can be solid white)

white (recessive white) x black (carries recessive white) = 1/2 white and 1/2 black ( NO PAINTS ARE PRODUCED)

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I found this:
ON THE WEB DEFINITION ~
Paints are genetically a black chicken that carries one dominant white gene. One dominant white gene does not always cover all the black- so some black will leak through the white- this produces a paint. If a black bird carries two dominant white genes the black is usually completely covered so you get a white bird and not a paint. The trick is to breed the birds so that you produce very few birds that carry two dominant white genes.

There is another gene that can cause a bird to be white- it is the recessive white gene. Paints are not recessive white. If you cross a recessive white to a black, all of the offspring should be black. There is the chance that the black can carry one recessive white gene; then 1/2 the chicks will be recessive white and 1/2 will be black. NO PAINTS WILL BE PRODUCED ONLY WHITES. The black offspring from this cross will be carriers and should not be used to breed for paints.

paint x paint = about 1/2 paint offspring, some white offspring and some black offspring

paint x white ( dominant white)= about 1/2 paint and 1/2 white

white (dominant white) x black = most will be paints ( birds carrying one dominant white gene can be solid white)

white (recessive white) x black (carries recessive white) = 1/2 white and 1/2 black ( NO PAINTS ARE PRODUCED)

Thank you! This requires thought. But, it will be some time before I'm breeding anything, and that's on the supposition that the paint is a pullet and the 'mottled' is a cockerel.

 

[RinaRoo]

sorry for your losses. you should make some sort of cage or covered small run till they grow up.

Wow, it's been a while since I've been on. The dog was a Great Dane. She is back with her breeder now. After this whole mess, she started taking off over the fence every time I let her out to pee, or went to work. So I had to put her on a chain so she couldn't take off and hurt herself. So the breeder decided that she needed to come pick her up.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Looloo and Annabelle today.

 

[Trish1974]

Looloo and Annabelle today.
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They are beautiful! Great camera, too!

 

[pginsber]

I found this:
ON THE WEB DEFINITION ~
Paints are genetically a black chicken that carries one dominant white gene. One dominant white gene does not always cover all the black- so some black will leak through the white- this produces a paint. If a black bird carries two dominant white genes the black is usually completely covered so you get a white bird and not a paint. The trick is to breed the birds so that you produce very few birds that carry two dominant white genes.

There is another gene that can cause a bird to be white- it is the recessive white gene. Paints are not recessive white. If you cross a recessive white to a black, all of the offspring should be black. There is the chance that the black can carry one recessive white gene; then 1/2 the chicks will be recessive white and 1/2 will be black. NO PAINTS WILL BE PRODUCED ONLY WHITES. The black offspring from this cross will be carriers and should not be used to breed for paints.

paint x paint = about 1/2 paint offspring, some white offspring and some black offspring

paint x white ( dominant white)= about 1/2 paint and 1/2 white

white (dominant white) x black = most will be paints ( birds carrying one dominant white gene can be solid white)

white (recessive white) x black (carries recessive white) = 1/2 white and 1/2 black ( NO PAINTS ARE PRODUCED)

Since you seem to have an interest & grasp of these, what could a silver duckwing over buff produce?

 

[Trish1974]

Since you seem to have an interest & grasp of these, what could a silver duckwing over buff produce?

Unfortunately I have no clue. Buff is not a color I have interest in so I've not studied it.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Since you seem to have an interest & grasp of these, what could a silver duckwing over buff produce?

According to the chicken genetics calculator this is what you would get.