Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

[ronott1]

wow 35… all yours?

No, they go to the egg farmer. I will keep a couple though since I have a little Del chick that is lonely.

 

[Old Rando]

Toni, nice to see you post here...

here is my take, I believe they are 100% pure Sumatra, you see its believed that the blue egg shell gene appeared well before polynesians brought chickens to the american continent,

Here is a quote from the study of the blue egg gene mutation origin. ~~he EAV-HP integration site of the oocyan Mapuche fowl, the French Araucana, the Moss breed from Spain, and the Araucana and Cream Legbar chickens from the UK are identical and in agreement with historical accounts that the modern European oocyan breeds derive from Mapuche fowl. Similarly the genome integration site of the Mapuche fowl was identical to the North American Araucana [14], again confirming the origin of this population. These findings therefore suggest that the presence of blue eggs in Mapuche fowl, modern European and American breeds, did not involve birds from Asia despite suggestions of their travels with Dutch pirates [10], and that the oocyan Asian genotype has remained confined to China. This might be considered surprising given that many modern breeds derive from Asian lineages – for instance the Silkie, Brahma, Cochin and Croad Langshan to name a few, are now commonly found throughout Europe and North America. Here is a link to the article http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0071393

 

[Manningjw]

Here is a quote from the study of the blue egg gene mutation origin. ~~he EAV-HP integration site of the oocyan Mapuche fowl, the French Araucana, the Moss breed from Spain, and the Araucana and Cream Legbar chickens from the UK are identical and in agreement with historical accounts that the modern European oocyan breeds derive from Mapuche fowl. Similarly the genome integration site of the Mapuche fowl was identical to the North American Araucana [14], again confirming the origin of this population. These findings therefore suggest that the presence of blue eggs in Mapuche fowl, modern European and American breeds, did not involve birds from Asia despite suggestions of their travels with Dutch pirates [10], and that the oocyan Asian genotype has remained confined to China. This might be considered surprising given that many modern breeds derive from Asian lineages – for instance the Silkie, Brahma, Cochin and Croad Langshan to name a few, are now commonly found throughout Europe and North America. Here is a link to the article http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0071393

What breeds of asian chickens lay blue eggs? I have tried to search myself but couldn't find any information. It would be nice to breed those breeds to Ameraucanas and see if the blue is even more vibrant because it is on different loci of the chromosome.

 

[Old Rando]

The Dongxiang and Lushi, a quote from the article "~~Recently Wang et al. [14] identified an endogenous avian retroviral (EAV-HP) insertion in Chinese Dongxiang chicken associated with the over-expression of a solute carrier, SLCO1B3, proposing it to be the causative mutation of the oocyan phenotype in the breed. They reveal the same retroviral insertion and site to be present in another Chinese breed (Lushi), but a different insertion site in North American Araucana believed to be of South American descent. They suggest that these two insertions represent parallel evolution of the oocyan phenotype in the American and Asian continents, but do not provide any evidence of enhanced expression of SLCO1B3 in native fowl from the South American continent"

 

[hbhoffman]

They should hatch soon.
[/quote][quote name="ronott1" url="/t/624359/blue-egg-layers-from-unversity-of-arkansas/1020#post_12971919"]35 UofA Blues are on day 20!


Wow, Please keep us posted. And photos would be nice!

 

[ronott1]

They should hatch soon.

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They are hatching now! I will post pictures in the morning.

 

[johnderosa1]

They are hatching now! I will post pictures in the morning.

Woo hoo! Can't wait to see them.

 

[ronott1]

Here they are!

 

[johnderosa1]

Here they are!

Awesome!

 

[DMRippy]

Here they are!

Are those SPLASH? or something else that hatched with them?