Breeding Program Mind Map

[tolmema]

I have created a breeding plan for my lavender and zombie flocks. I have included as much genetic info that I understand/know how to track using the chicken calculator.

I am currently in the F1 phase.

 

[SourRoses]

I understand having complicated stuff in your head!
My project started with 5 breeds... so keeping track of the past, present, and future seems to use a lot of mental cookies!
I started using Scapple software to organize some of it, I like that because it lets you move stuff around at any point and customize the look. What program did you use for yours?
I also used Scrivener to make a Breeding Book that has more details and pictures of all the birds. That way as I learn more I can go back and evaluate them again.

I'm curious what you mean by Mottled / Pied? As far as I've heard, Pied is very rare. Mottling is quite different from it. The only other spots involve dominant white and make Paint.

 

[tolmema]

I understand having complicated stuff in your head!
My project started with 5 breeds... so keeping track of the past, present, and future seems to use a lot of mental cookies!
I started using Scapple software to organize some of it, I like that because it lets you move stuff around at any point and customize the look. What program did you use for yours?
I also used Scrivener to make a Breeding Book that has more details and pictures of all the birds. That way as I learn more I can go back and evaluate them again.

I'm curious what you mean by Mottled / Pied? As far as I've heard, Pied is very rare. Mottling is quite different from it. The only other spots involve dominant white and make Paint.

thank you! i'm doing my best with what i understand.

i used Canva to build it out, the whiteboard feature.

RE: mottled/pied - in the chicken calculator, when you pick a "paint" bird it's called white unicolor/self•E pied/mottled, so that's what i've been using for terminology throughout the graphic. the labeling for that is Mo/mo in the calculator.

 

[SourRoses]

@NatJ @Amer
Does the calculator thing Tolmema is reporting sound like an error with the site?

 

[Amer]

It says pied/mottled on the calculator.
Some people consider mottling to be piebald but the calculator should not say that. Pied patterns remain the same throughout the bird's life and mottling is progressive, adding more white with each successive molt. Mottling is the more correct term. Pied is just "okay."

 

[NatJ]

@NatJ @Amer
Does the calculator thing Tolmema is reporting sound like an error with the site?

I think it's just a matter of word choices, treating "pied" and "mottled" as two words for the same effect.

The calculator has options for several languages, so when I see a color term that doesn't match the usage I'm familiar with, I shrug it off as a translation issue.

 

[tolmema]

It says pied/mottled on the calculator.
Some people consider mottling to be piebald but the calculator should not say that. Pied patterns remain the same throughout the bird's life and mottling is progressive, adding more white with each successive molt. Mottling is the more correct term. Pied is just "okay."

thanks for clarifying!!

 

[SourRoses]

I think it's just a matter of word choices, treating "pied" and "mottled" as two words for the same effect.

The calculator has options for several languages, so when I see a color term that doesn't match the usage I'm familiar with, I shrug it off as a translation issue.

So if OPs spotty birds are based on dominant white, there would be no reason to select mottled in the calculator, right?

 

[tolmema]

So if OPs spotty birds are based on dominant white, there would be no reason to select mottled in the calculator, right?

if i understand this correctly - when you turn off mottling or just choose 1 mottling gene the bird physically is just white.

1 or 0 copies Mo/mo

so at least for the calculator, there needs to be a mottling expression to get the white dom bird with spots.

 

[Amer]

So if OPs spotty birds are based on dominant white, there would be no reason to select mottled in the calculator, right?

The graphic is confusing to me but I think one of the original birds has mottling, right?