Breeding black to white?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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If it helps any, I think what equibling is asking is whether there is one color that is *epistatic* to all other colors. For instance as grey is in horses; if a horse has one dominant gray allele, it doesnt matter what other color genotype it has, it's going to end up a gray once it's mature.

(I do not know enough chicken genetics to know the answer to the question, but if I put it in proper genetics terminology presumably others of y'all *can* answer it <g>)

Pat

Right--and that's my issue...I keep comparing them to horses! LOL

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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That would be homozygous recessive white.

So I used to breed hypomelanistic bearded dragons. They used the terms hetrozygous often in their offspring if the dragon did not display hypomelanism. I've heard of homoygous in paint horses.

Oh and I also used to breed leucistic beardies...basically, I was wanting to know if I breed a white chicken to a black chicken, what color would the chicks be? Apparently, it's not that simple! LOL

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Totally off topic, but I

Beardies!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Beardies!

Me too! I miss them.

I want to get some more, someday--much to my husband's dismay. I used to own www.hypodragons.com and now someone else does...

 

[Krys109uk]

I have a white oriental gamefowl hen who has an occasional black feather here and there. So she would have one copy of dominate white, yes?

This year she was mated with a stag that showed the black breasted red pattern.

One of the resulting offspring appeared to be solid white, unfortunately he died young after getting his immature feathers so I do not know how his adult plumage would have looked like.

Would that mean the BBR stag could potentially carry a recessive white gene?

It sounds like your white hen could have one dominant white gene.

Any bird *can* carry a recessive white gene. It doesn't usually show.

You didn't describe the rest of the offspring.​

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Beardies!

Have you seen the new "slickbacks?" They are scaleless beardies... kind of freaky!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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It sounds like your white hen could have one dominant white gene.

Any bird *can* carry a recessive white gene. It doesn't usually show.

You didn't describe the rest of the offspring.

I didn't hatch but three and that's not really enough to make a judgement... but one is what I would call a dark wheaten (kind of like the dark cornish female) pullet, and the other is a blue red breasted stag.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Totally off topic, but I

Beardies!

Have you seen the new "slickbacks?" They are scaleless beardies... kind of freaky!

Eww... I just googled them!

Not for me, dragons must have scales!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Have you seen the new "slickbacks?" They are scaleless beardies... kind of freaky!

Eww... I just googled them!

Not for me, dragons must have scales!

Check out the girl towards the bottom of the page...(Dachiu used to be one of my favs to get dragons from)
http://www.dachiu.com/beardeddragons/projects.html