Araucana thread anyone?

[RinaRoo]

Maybe eventually the Blue boy will be fertile? Any how, with this new paint one, if I breed her in the future to my GDW cockerel, will I get the typical that I would as GDW black or blue? I used the genetics calculator for the solid color girls, but I have no idea with the paint.

 

[Trish1974]

Maybe eventually the Blue boy will be fertile? Any how, with this new paint one, if I breed her in the future to my GDW cockerel, will I get the typical that I would as GDW black or blue? I used the genetics calculator for the solid color girls, but I have no idea with the paint.

I have no idea how paint works either.

 

[Trish1974]

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)

Best Answer by madison174 » Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:

 

[RinaRoo]

So what would duckwing carry then? Black, white, recessive or dominant? I guess I'll find out eventually.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Hey guys... sorry. Been away all weekend. Came home to Iron Bull's wounds with maggots in them, regardless of how I treated them before I left. I ended up putting him down too.
@Trish1974, no this attack was different. Before, whatever carried away the bodies. Now, I’m down to 6, and poor Sera desperately trying to fit in with the rest of the survivors now that both of her 'siblings' are gone. They’re letting her join them, but she’s still looking for her compatriots. Sigh, she’s gonna be fine, but I feel bad for my last brahma. She’s the only big LF I have left, and the last from my original flock.
My sister wants me to go in with her on an order from MPC... but I really want to get breeder birds. Sigh. Really I just want to wait a little.

 

[Trish1974]

Hey guys... sorry. Been away all weekend. Came home to Iron Bull's wounds with maggots in them, regardless of how I treated them before I left. I ended up putting him down too.
@Trish1974, no this attack was different. Before, whatever carried away the bodies. Now, I’m down to 6, and poor Sera desperately trying to fit in with the rest of the survivors now that both of her 'siblings' are gone. They’re letting her join them, but she’s still looking for her compatriots. Sigh, she’s gonna be fine, but I feel bad for my last brahma. She’s the only big LF I have left, and the last from my original flock.
My sister wants me to go in with her on an order from MPC... but I really want to get breeder birds. Sigh. Really I just want to wait a little.

I still can't believe that happened. I am so sorry you had to put down Iron Bull, too.

 

[RinaRoo]

So according to Ann, paints behave genetically like a white, so it would seem that they would come out either a solid of what's under the white, or white.

 

[Trish1974]

I got a better look at the new chicks today. Now that they are fully fluffed I see the single tufted mottled is actually double tufted, and what I thought was a clean faced BBR is single tufted. I don't expect that one to survive. It looks okay, but it was still wet when the mother got off the nest, and yesterday it kept opening and closing its mouth like it was still trying to absorb its yolk. That's probably going to cause some problems.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I got a better look at the new chicks today. Now that they are fully fluffed I see the single tufted mottled is actually double tufted, and what I thought was a clean faced BBR is single tufted. I don't expect that one to survive. It looks okay, but it was still wet when the mother got off the nest, and yesterday it kept opening and closing its mouth like it was still trying to absorb its yolk. That's probably going to cause some problems.

Pictures please!
How many eggs hatched out of the eggs she sat on?

 

[Trish1974]

Pictures please!
How many eggs hatched out of the eggs she sat on?

Four of seven.
Two from Mama and Manolito and two from Triple Tufts and the BBR hen.
The three that didn't hatch were the Blues.