Can a clean faced Easter egged have chicks with muffs?

[jay873]

I have a clean faced Easter egger that lays blue eggs and she has being mounted by my buff Orpington and I plan on hatching her eggs from him to have a few green egg layers but I also want beards. I have a bearded Easter egger rooster but he isn't able to mount her because he isn't the dominant roo.
I will hatch eggs from her and him soon but I decided I wanted to get a few buff X easter eggers first. so I'm wondering since you can get a beardless Easter egger from bearded parents (unlikely) is it possible to get bearded ones from beardless parents?

 

[sylviethecochin]

First, it's very likely that the non-dominant rooster is getting some mating in on the sly.

Secondly, bearding is a dominant trait; if either parent had the gene for it, that parent would be bearded.

 

[jay873]

So no bearded chicks ok thanks

 

[jay873]

Wait I did a little of biology and you can get no bearded chicks from 2 bearded parents. So you will have an dominant (B) trait and a recessive (b) so both parents give 1 trait. So if both of the parents were heterozygous they would have a big B (B=bearded) And one little b (b=no beard) so there would be 25% chance of a chick with no beard (bb) . Bb will still have a beard because the Beard trait is dominant B

 

[sylviethecochin]

Wait I did a little of biology and you can get no bearded chicks from 2 bearded parents. So you will have an dominant (B) trait and a recessive (b) so both parents give 1 trait. So if both of the parents were heterozygous they would have a big B (B=bearded) And one little b (b=no beard) so there would be 25% chance of a chick with no beard (bb) . Bb will still have a beard because the Beard trait is dominant B

Yep. And if neither of your parents are bearded, you won't get bearded chicks because B must express if the parent has it. Your chooks must both by homozygous nonbearded (bb.) If they were heterozygous for bearding, you would see a beard.


.............|...Parent 1
_______|__b____b
Parent 2:|b bb ... bb
.............|b bb ... bb


So if your bearded cockerel is getting some action in on the side, you'll probably see some bearded chicks. Otherwise, no.


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