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Should BYC Have It's Own, Easy To Use Genetic Calculator?

  • Yes, great idea!

    Votes: 194 87.0%
  • No, waste of time...

    Votes: 4 1.8%
  • Yes, and I can offer help!

    Votes: 18 8.1%
  • Yes, but with some adjustments to the original post...

    Votes: 7 3.1%

  • Total voters
    223
Isn't it 12:30 for you?
*wriggles fingers 'hypnotically'.*
Sleeeeep.
shhh... I've been working what do you guys think of the updated egg chart? it looks kind of wimpy next to the comb chart... but I think I might have more info there than I actually need. no one is going to need to know the gene, or the chemical. should I just delete it and keep it for my own information?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OOjHH5UaHbd4qoRNPF0jvDu4g26H42NZWdK403pCX8w/edit?usp=sharing
 
shhh... I've been working what do you guys think of the updated egg chart? it looks kind of wimpy next to the comb chart... but I think I might have more info there than I actually need. no one is going to need to know the gene, or the chemical. should I just delete it and keep it for my own information?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OOjHH5UaHbd4qoRNPF0jvDu4g26H42NZWdK403pCX8w/edit?usp=sharing
Probably too complex. Very Cool, but who really knows what genes each breed of chicken/individual has that determine its egg color? Maybe make it a supplementary attachment to the calculator?
 
:thumbsup Of course, that's just my opinion...
my opinion too. I'm thinking sure all that info is cool and I had to learn it to understand what I was talking about, but someone who is coding this thing isn't going to have to know. And some one using the calculator, isn't likely to need to know. It's really just a confusing factor to have it all there.
 
@nicalandia, what does the prime ^ symbol mean again? I think it has to do with incomplete dominance. Right?
No, most genes are incompletely dominant, the symbol ^ is seldom used because most of the time only one mutation occurs in a locus, for example mottling where the mutation is mo and the wildtype gene is Mo+, you can wright that as Mo+/mo, but in some genes more than one mutation occurs, for example the dominant white locus, there are Three mutations known and the wild type counterpart, so it's useful to write the symbol, given the example of dominant white locus mutations.. I, I^s, I^s, i+... I is for dominant White, I^s is for the Smoky mutation found by Dr. Ron Okimoto on the ADOL inbreed line of White Leghorns, never made it past the research lab and have not been made available to the general public for further breeding... The I^d is the Dun mutation, turns black pigment into a chocolate color, two copies makes the bird nearly white, and i+ is the wild type gene found on birds with black pigments.

If you check the current calculator(the one at kippenjungle) you will see the same symbols.
 

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