Araucana thread anyone?

[banjoejoe4783]

 

[Stacykins]

Wow, that is such a lovely BBR hen!

 

[Ksane]

Joe, can you tell me what color parents this BR hen is out of? Do you remember?

I had to edit mine, too, Stacy or it looked like I was talking crazy after you changed yours lol!

 

[Stacykins]

Yea, I realized it was someone else, hah.

 

[cashdl]

Thanks Joe, yes this is a really nice wild type hen. I love her shape. Its perfect. Is she tufted?

Lanae

 

[poularde]

Great conversation today.

I find BBR to be a bit confusing too. Leg color will be something I will need to work on in a few of my birds. I have a wild type BBR pullet double tufted that has the brightest yellow legs. Maybe I should not use her oh and she has a tail also. I think I will be using all my tufted hens this coming breeding season. Well, at least until I have a tufted cockerel.

 

[smoothmule]

Lanae,
I didn't read Okimoto's paper but it's easy to figure out how to breed for yellow or willow legs. It is sex linked, the hen cannot hide the green leg gene so she's either green legged and has the gene or yellow legged and doesn't have it to give. The rooster can carry the gene hidden. If he's green legged, he's going to pass it on. If he's yellow legged, he may carry it and produce it or not have it at all.
I didn't need to read any research on the leg color. It's pretty obvious when breeding

 

[KirstenJL]

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I'm going to jump in here again, because now I've been doing Punnett squares all morning! The only way I can get this to work out as described above is if the willow (id+) is recessive, and the yellow (Id) is dominant. The gene notation indicates this too. So a male willow would be id+id+ and a female yellow would be Id. Does this make sense to anyone else?

Kirsten

 

[Stacykins]

Eggggggggs! Araucana eggs! My girls provided me enough eggs this past week to incubate THIRTY! Squee! I know all won't make it to hatch, but it should be better than the 2-3 chicks at a time hatches I was getting from small batches of eggs (all I was getting) in the incubator. So, go go action Brinsea!

 

[Kassaundra]

Lost our little bbr girl to a preditor yesterday

Think it was a feral cat.