BYC Genetic/Breed Calculator Huge Task Ahead!

[Amer]

I don't have time to read back. What has been discovered and where are we now?

Leg colors are very linked to the e locus, which controls the distribution of black on a bird, extended black E/E, duckwing e+/e+, wheaten ewh/ewh, ect.
I'll get the list of genes in a moment. Also, silkie feathering is s/s autosomal recessive.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Fine by me. My pullet died
We're heading out to buy Corid and a dewormer.

 

[Rose Quartz]

I don't have time to read back. What has been discovered and where are we now?

A4R has leg colors understood. Sylviethecochin, has offered Genetics help.

and I'm still working on egg shell color. I'm going to be looking into both earlobe color, and the different chemicals used in making the egg shell colors today to see if I can get anywhere with it. I've got 9 gene names so far that affect egg coloration.

 

[Rose Quartz]

@KikisGirls when you take the pictures of your egg shell for your project. could you break off a piece and lay it flat (flat-ish) inside surface up, so we can see if maybe it's brown from light filtering through?

 

[Amer]

White legs=W+/W+Id/Idewh/ewh
Slate= W+/W+id+/id+e+/e+ carrying white
Slate= w/wid+/id+e+/e+ carrying yellow
Yellow legs=w/wId/Idewh/ewh
White legs=W+/W+Id/Idewh/ewh
Slate= W+/W+id+/id+e+/e+ carrying white
Slate= w/wid+/id+e+/e+ carrying yellow
Yellow legs=w/wId/Idewh/ewh
White legs=W+/W+Id/Idewh/ewh
Slate= W+/W+id+/id+e+/e+ carrying white
Slate= w/wid+/id+e+/e+ carrying yellow
Yellow legs=w/wId/Idewh/ewh
Or Yellow legs=w/wId/Ideb/eb
Or Yellow legs w/wId/Idey/ey
so yellow legs are ewh if base color is wheaten, like buffs and wheatens, and it is eb if the e gene is partridge.
And the ey is recessive wheaten.
Id (melanin inhibitor) allows clear yellow legs on E and ER birds.
So yellow can also be w/wId/IdER/ER! Or maybe even w/wId/IdE/E!
Willow legs=w/wid+/id+e+/e+
Guess what else? Barring inhibits pigment in the legs of black and birchen birds as well. Sometimes barring can dilute black pigment to white. So we don't need the Id gene! Id/Id gets thrown out the window!
And blue dilutes dark slate to a blue color! So everything we know about leg color gets thrown out the window! I'm so confused about this now. How will we link everything together correctly? Is there a documentation of how each gene affects melanin?

 

[Rose Quartz]

HMMM... brown eggs are bright red under UV light.

 

[Amer]

HMMM... brown eggs are bright red under UV light.

How does this help us? Why are we mapping genes anyways? I thought we were doing a simple calculator, not a complicated confusing one. For example, blue O/O plus white o+/o+ equals blue. Short n simple.

 

[BlackHackle]

Good Morning everyone! For some odd reason I did not receive alerts for this thread . So I figured everyone was just taking a break until I manually clicked on it and noticed 122 new posts I hadn't read!

Fine by me. My pullet died
We're heading out to buy Corid and a dewormer.

Was it a breeding stock? That always kills

 

[Cyprus]

When I get things settled with my bords over here I'll put together some spreadsheets for us to start putting genetics on.
When you put them on the spreadsheet, try to keep it as simple as possible. I.E "Dominant, recessive, allelic, etc" "when X is crossed with Y you get Z"

 

[Cyprus]

Was it a breeding stock? That always kills

Yes. Very expensive, highly important, time and energy consuming breeding stock.
Major loss.