BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Kev]

You chicken people are crazy... not just you guys, but the ones over the years that named these colors.... this rooster is clearly not blue.... OR grey which is what people call blue..... he may carry blue genetics, but he's clearly red... I have no hope of ever figuring out chicken colors... horses are so much more simple...

Haha! Fun aside, the hobby does have problems with naming. Several different names for the same thing(a gene, a pattern etc).. same name given to totally different things.

In the case of blue, look at it as the bird having the blue gene. That beautiful copper roo is Blue because his tail is grey, which indicates the presence of the blue gene.

The blue gene is good at diluting black pigments to grey shades. It has no or little effect on red/gold pigments. This is a nice feature enabling us to create and play with things like blue tailed reds, blue laced reds etc.

Solid blues are simply a solid black chicken with the blue gene.

 

[Kusanar]

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I'm glad no one took offence at my post. I REALLY shake my head at the quail people... their names don't even suggest what color the darn bird is... I'm going to stick to the "wild type" which I believe is possibly also called brown and tibettan... I don't really care what it's called, I just don't want to have to squeeze a bird butt to tell if I have a boy or a girl!

 

[cyborg]

 

 



You chicken people are crazy... not just you guys, but the ones over the years that named these colors.... this rooster is clearly not blue.... OR grey which is what people call blue..... he may carry blue genetics, but he's clearly red... I have no hope of ever figuring out chicken colors... horses are so much more simple...

I know exactly what you mean! That's why I defer to @Kev
 all the time. I've learned that grey = blue or silver; lavender really isn't purple, red can be mahogany or more of an orange, white can be white, but not remain white in offspring if it is recessive instead of dominant, and poultry colors in general have very strange relationships with one another where one always seems to be working to suppress another. Even though my rooster has grey (blue?) in his tail feathers and laced on his chest, I see every shade of "copper" when I look at him. Hence his name, Copper. It was simpler for me that way. 

I'm glad no one took offence at my post. I REALLY shake my head at the quail people... their names don't even suggest what color the darn bird is... I'm going to stick to the "wild type" which I believe is possibly also called brown and tibettan... I don't really care what it's called, I just don't want to have to squeeze a bird butt to tell if I have a boy or a girl!

ummm....squeezing a bird butt might get you a "surprise", but it won't tell you the sex!

 

[oshun55555]

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I'm glad no one took offence at my post. I REALLY shake my head at the quail people... their names don't even suggest what color the darn bird is... I'm going to stick to the "wild type" which I believe is possibly also called brown and tibettan... I don't really care what it's called, I just don't want to have to squeeze a bird butt to tell if I have a boy or a girl!

ummm....squeezing a bird butt might get you a "surprise", but it won't tell you the sex!
yes it will, when you squeeze the quail vent if its a mail a foamy sperm will come out, with the natural color you can tell by the males breast as well as vent checking.

 

[oshun55555]

EXAMPLE

 

[DesertChic]

yes it will, when you squeeze the quail vent if its a mail a foamy sperm will come out, with the natural color you can tell by the males breast as well as vent checking.

OMG! You guys are killing me! I don't doubt what you say...but I'll just choose to take your word for it rather than test the theory myself.

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Yep I agree with Christine

OMG BYC never ceases to amaze me.

 

[gevshiba]

Well I got my Buckeyes a few days ago! I also picked up 2 Legbar pullets and "Lucky" the cross rooster. He's only 10 weeks and look how big he is!

Did you frame your sister?

 

[holm25]

Did you frame your sister?

No... I swear

 

[hellbender]

I'm happy to say that an old friend and classmate came to visit yesterday and wound up staying for lunch. He and dad matriculated from WVU, are politically polar opposites but have remained good friends all these years.

Mr. Coonts lives about 60 miles from us ( perhaps 35 if you're a crow) and his company was thoroughly enjoyed by all and everyone but dad appreciated hearing about some of dad's antics in his early life. Hope he comes back soon.

Jason