Buff Barred Cochin Thread

[davony's chicks]

I know you are not supposed to count your chickens before they hatch, but I have 12 Bantam Barred Buff Cochins in the incubator now and I am so excited! These will be my first cochins so I am actually doubly excited!!! I am a newby as I have only owned chickens for about a year and a half but we have show bunnies so I am applying what I know about color genetics from that and I have been studying cochin type and faults. I hope you guys don't mind a newbie joining in, and by the way, I love all these pics.

The more the merrier! Good luck with your hatch! May you have 12 Show Quality buff barreds!

 

[County Boy]

I'll be ordering some buff barred cochin bantams for the NYD hatch along. I just love cochins and I'm completely new to their genetics. I planned on focusing on the silver laced cochin bantams, but when I saw these guys, I knew I needed some buff barred as well. hahaha.

These are probably really stupid beginners questions, and I haven't had the time to read through all of the pages yet, but what do you guys use for improving type? and is the barring a dominant trait?

There are two types of barring, double and single. Double barring is what my rooster Peanut Butter is meaning all of his kids will be barred. Single barring is like Amy's Dynamite. Only 50% of his kids will be barred.

 

[cochins1088]

Ok, the breeder I'm ordering from says that her rooster is homozygous so he will throw out 100% barred chicks, does this mean that the offspring will also be homozygous, or could they be heterozygous simply showing the barred trait?

 

[Fancy Feathers]

It would depend on what they're bred to I imagine
A homozygous bred to a regular buff will throw barred chicks, but those chicks would be heterozygous.

 

[cochins1088]

Ok, it all makes sence now. Everything I learned in biology is suddenly coming back to me. It's just Punnet squares, so the barring trait is dominant because they show the pattern when they have heterozygous genes. Thanks!

 

[SimpleHarmony]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us! & very good luck on your hatch!

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Thanks guys! They go into lock down on December 1st..... fingers crossed

 

[SimpleHarmony]

Ok, it all makes sence now. Everything I learned in biology is suddenly coming back to me. It's just Punnet squares, so the barring trait is dominant because they show the pattern when they have heterozygous genes. Thanks!

I was looking through the "Cochin Thread!!!" and post #2274 gave a great overview of barred genetics in buff barred. There is probably a way to post a link to, it but I do not know how. Maybe someone on here can help with that.

 

[cochins1088]

I was looking through the "Cochin Thread!!!" and post #2274 gave a great overview of barred genetics in buff barred. There is probably a way to post a link to, it but I do not know how. Maybe someone on here can help with that.

Found it! Thanks! Here's the link if anyone else want to see: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/195235/cochin-thread/2270

 

[Fancy Feathers]

Thank you for finding that & posting it!

 

[wwmicasa1]

I was out in the pens today to do the quarterly "Spa Treatment" for the Buff Barred. Snapped a few pics to share.