barred easter egger?

[jerryse]

Hey got rid of my picture glitch !This was moving day for some of the barred/cuckoo chicks.

 

[nicalandia]

Hey got rid of my picture glitch !This was moving day for some of the barred/cuckoo chicks.

nice keep us updated please..

 

[jerryse]

If anyone is interested I have some of these eggs for sale on the 24 hour auction thread.

 

[jerryse]

Here are some more pics of the barred/cuckoo project.







Getting slate legs on pullets more than on cockerels.Largest cockerel is about 10 months and has light slate legs.Chickens would not hold still for pics so pics not so good.

 

[jerryse]

Here are updated photos of 2 pullets posted earlier.First one is laying and shows pale yellow on feet.Second one no beard.I will try to get more pics.Getting more slate legs on pullets this year but cockerels are not holding their leg color.The single comb rooster in previous post still has slate legs at 11 months.

 

[nicalandia]

Here are updated photos of 2 pullets posted earlier.First one is laying and shows pale yellow on feet.Second one no beard.I will try to get more pics.Getting more slate legs on pullets this year but cockerels are not holding their leg color.The single comb rooster in previous post still has slate legs at 11 months.

unless Fibromelanotic and a Id inhibitor(inhibitor of Dermal Inhibitor) are mixed in one bird. none of your roosters will have slate leggs. I´m am slowly working on such a program..

 

[jerryse]

Here are some cockerels.Yes double barring seems to inhibit slate legs.Even silkie breeders are having trouble with this.Holding leg color past 6 months on cockerels seems to be the challenge.

 

[nicalandia]

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Silkie breeders have issues with red faces not with slate colored legs, but thats for stablished lines, project lines are still dealing with the Id(sex linked gene that makes shank yellow or white depending on skin color) and Barring linkage. they(Id and B) are linked by like 1 or 2 centimorgan.. breaking that linkage is need it for Slate shanks on Silkies.. Silkies with white or clear shanks are Id/Id B/B and silkies with Black or slate shanks are id+/id(found on the red jungle fowl slate shanks) and B/B. Barring does have some effect on the overal expression of pigmentation and you can see this on their face... But the good news for silkie owners is that they have Fibromelanotic(Black Skin) is helping them with this... this is not the case with your birds...

 

[jerryse]

I decided not to use silkie blood.I read a post on the silkie thread about mottled legs and another somewhere else saying slate legs on cuckoo were like gold to silkie breeders.Anyway I figured by the time I got rid of the black skin I would be back to where I am now.I tried last year with a white silkie pullet but she seldom laid and no chicks survived to adult.Just did not want those genes.I will keep trying.I have a use for barring for sex links and auto sexing.I will continue to watch the silkie,polish,and D'Anvers breeds to see how they handle this issue.The mottled pattern has the same problem with leg color but black and blue seem to be the colors with this issue.Millie Fleur is mottled but has slate legs.

 

[nicalandia]

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you may want to take a look at the Mottled OEG.. alot of them have black/slate shanks. while the genetics are different because mottling is not sex linked there could be a dermal enhancer in them...