Buff Genetics Chart

[pete55]

BUFF GENETICS CHART AND MATING OUTCOMES.

 

[nicalandia]

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Thanks...

 

[galanie]

So these are 5 unrelated groups? And does this pretty much hold true as charted only if it's grey? Excuse my thickness, just want to be sure I understand the charts.

I mean, it pretty much looks like how any solid color mated to any other solid color would work, but I thought buff worked a bit differently. What I don't know about chicken genetics would fill a book lol.

 

[Illia]

This is for Geese. WAAY different from the Buff in chickens.


Basically Buff in Geese works the same way it does with recessive genes like mottling, silkied feathering, chocolate, and lavender in Chickens.

 

[swheat]

Would the chart be correct for breeding white to buff and buff to white ?

 

[Henk69]

No, and these charts are not typical. Buff is a sexlinked gene.

 

[AquaEyes]

It's a beautiful chart. However, I have one point of contention. In common genetics parlance, the visual color comes BEFORE the word "split", and anything after the word "split" is the unseen color. Thus a gander that looks gray but carries the buff gene would properly be called "Gray split Buff" and not "Split Gray."


Illia, I think "buff" in geese is analogous to "dun" in chickens. They both are inherited the same way, and turn black to brown. But since the geese are gray, the effect is a "light black" turning to "light brown" that looks somewhat "buff."

 

[Henk69]

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Dun is not sexlinked. Choc is...

 

[AquaEyes]

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Dun is not sexlinked. Choc is...

AHHHHHHH........yes, I got them mixed up....THANKS!!!

OK, so then just substitute that into what I said above. I think things would be easier to learn if the same name was given to the same mutation in various breeds and species, rather than coming up with new names for the same mutation. "Buff" geese versus "buff" chickens is the perfect example.

 

[Henk69]

Logic as that sounds, it takes quite a bit of DNA sequencing to confirm genes are the same.

For instance. The blue gene in dogs, called D, is the same gene as lavender in chickens. The same gene in mice is called "leaden" and is not the blue gene in mice called D.