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
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Yea, good idea...I was thinking of having colored presents for each breed of like the hackles and stuff which are linked up to the genes in the calculator. Also we must not forget the other game birds like Indian Game, Shamo, Malay, Assel, and Modern Game...I know some others, a friend of mine is extremely obsessed with game birds.
I have Aseel on the sheet already. I will be adding whatever is APA recognized, then reviewing the list and adding to it any breeds that aren't APA recognized but that I feel enough people have to be worth being on the calculator. Like Brabanters, for example.
 
What are you going to do with breeds/varieties which can have unknown recessives?
Of course first one comes to mind for me is white leghorns.
They can have a lot of different genes hiding under the white.
What about black varieties that can be gold or silver based?
 
What are you going to do with breeds/varieties which can have unknown recessives?
Of course first one comes to mind for me is white leghorns.
They can have a lot of different genes hiding under the white.
What about black varieties that can be gold or silver based?
No clue. Guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Hybrids such as commercial birds like stars, isa browns, cinnamon queens, and production red will not be included.
I suppose for breeds like that we could integrate a feature called a "hidden gene". Such that if a white leghorn were to be crossed with whatever, half of the offspring would be white (or whatever would become of having 1 copy of dominant white) and the other half would be labeled as "unknown" with the explanation of the hidden gene which cannot be determined. Make sense?
If the user knows what their bird is hiding, they can add the gene/s to their heart's content.
 

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