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[SpringPeeper]

Here is a good explanation of breeding for sex links.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

It looks like she can use a Partridge Wyandotte rooster and have sex-linked Wyandottes. Cool!

What specifically is the significance and value of the red earlobe in the breeding of Cinnamon Queens? If this is an opinion, upon what is the basis for it? Is this maybe some sort of pleiotrophic indicator? If so, what is the connection please? In pleiotropism there are usually two or more phenotypic effects connected with a single gene. You know what I mean, evidence for the statement and connection. If such exists, a reference in a journal would be helpful, to be sure. One sure hears some interesting assertions in a forum such as this. Love these chicken fanciers!
Neal, the Zooman

As I stated in my post, it was a quote from the reference you gave her. If you read your reference, the poster says it is a way to avoid hatchery strains that have been crossed in ways that would interfere with sex-linking. I certainly wasn't expecting to defend your own source to you, but it seemed the poster was inferring that mis-colored earlobes in the red breeds could indicate other hidden pleiotropic genes or alleles, since unknown cross-breeding would almost certainly bring in other recessive genes you couldn't predict based on the genetics of pure strains. But since you are the one who actually posted the source for her, maybe you can now provide the journal reference?

But I found this (start at page 475): http://www.genetics.org/content/13/6/470.full.pdf

Sorry, it's just cracking me up that you posted it and told her the person was very knowledgeable, but when I quoted the specific portion of it you chuckle at my silliness

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[DoubleMM]

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[Lucie Blume]

Yes! I tried about 10 minutes ago. Received the same message as you. I thought it was my tablet.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Yes! I tried about 10 minutes ago. Received the same message as you. I thought it was my tablet.

I wasblaming my tablet also.

 

[casportpony]

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[ronott1]

Lots of people are having problems loading and many pictures have disappeared.

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My pictures are in my album, but I cannot post them. I is a huge database scripting failure on the site.

 

[casportpony]

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-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Copy and paste works...



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[PetRock]

Isn't that the truth! I've looked and it all looks like the same package to me! Around here we have to do it the old fashioned way and wait. Unless of course the offspring are sexlinked.

Which reminds me - someone told me that SLW can be used with a Sex-link program. Is this true? Does anyone know what color of rooster should be used? I have 3 hatchery SLW and that sounds like a fun experiment.

I hatched quite a few sex linked chicks this year using my Pita Pinta cockerel and my Cream Legbar hens. The cockerels were barred and the pullets were mostly solid black. The oldest pullets have just started laying beautiful green eggs. Here is a pic of one of them when she was younger. In a couple days, I'll post pics of the eggs and the pullets at POL.

 

[1zooman12]

Hello Spring Peeper,
This is a riot if I was the source for the ear lobe assertion. I really don't remember initiating the comment although I could have well passed along something along those lines by way of a reference that I found and did not read closely for all the fine details. I still don't know the answer to the relationship of the red ear lobes to success. I'm glad we are not taking each other too seriously as this is truly a fun forum. LOL all over the place on me! I'll go back and carefully read the citation you so rightly provided. I apologize for any oops I may have made. Wait until you get old; you might do something like that too! Getting along in age can be fun, at times…
Neal, the Zooman