BYC Genetic/Breed Calculator Huge Task Ahead!

[Rose Quartz]

I am going to build pens and research more on color genetics and how they effect each other

I misunderstood what you meant by this. That's really exciting!

 

[Rose Quartz]

Is there going to be a separate sheet for varieties or are we doing that yet?

uhh... I don't know if I know the difference between a variety and a breed.

Right now Cyprus is working on making a list of breeds and their color options I think.

 

[LilJoe]

uhh... I don't know if I know the difference between a variety and a breed.

Right now Cyprus is working on making a list of breeds and their color options I think.

Variety Is the color

 

[Kusanar]

This thread is HUGE... I will read through, but I don't have time right this minute. Check out this calculator, it's for horses, so you would certainly have to modify it, but it's easy to deal with as it is both a "simple" and "complex" calculator combined.
http://www.animalgenetics.us/Equine/CCalculator1.asp

You choose the color for both parents (the reason for the grey button is that a horse is a color and greys with age, so they could start brown or black and turn white over 5-10 years) then, it asks you more detailed questions as to the genetics and the better you know, the better the calculator. For example, black only asks you about the red factor and asks if it is a red carrier (Ee) or Homozygous Black (EE), where as Bay asks for the Red Factor and the Agouti information, both allow you to say "unknown" and then it will factor all options in, but if you can provide more information you get a better answer. Make sense?

 

[Rose Quartz]

This thread is HUGE... I will read through, but I don't have time right this minute. Check out this calculator, it's for horses, so you would certainly have to modify it, but it's easy to deal with as it is both a "simple" and "complex" calculator combined.
http://www.animalgenetics.us/Equine/CCalculator1.asp

You choose the color for both parents (the reason for the grey button is that a horse is a color and greys with age, so they could start brown or black and turn white over 5-10 years) then, it asks you more detailed questions as to the genetics and the better you know, the better the calculator. For example, black only asks you about the red factor and asks if it is a red carrier (Ee) or Homozygous Black (EE), where as Bay asks for the Red Factor and the Agouti information, both allow you to say "unknown" and then it will factor all options in, but if you can provide more information you get a better answer. Make sense?

ooo, nice! That's a really good reference for what we are considering doing.

 

[BlackHackle]

I going to try studying the makeups of each color variety sometime when I'm not so busy today

 

[BlackHackle]

I figured out the genetic makeup of Partridge Rocks sometime ago because I am working on Blue Partridge Rocks.

 

[BlackHackle]

I am better at dog varieties though...I can cross two dogs genes without using a calculator.......though that is no help with chickens

 

[BlackHackle]

I predicted my Lhasa Pup colors by percentage and was 97% correct!

 

[BlackHackle]

I now have a chocolate male that I had predicted would come out of every batch of 6.