Yeah I will. I can’t stay in it forever though. This is my third week. A lot stay 4-6 weeks. I might try to do one more full week and then a week or two of half days. Depends what my insurance will cover though.
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Pipd, or anyone that can answer, I have a challenge for you! As I'm trying to decide on dates for the first batch of serama eggs to go in the incubator, I'd like to know a little bit about what kind of chicks they could produce. Lady Gaga first, then Foureira, then the golden wheaten girl, and then a cream wheat girl (or at least that's what the SOP calls it)
Oooh, that's tough. I'm not honestly sure. 
I see a lot of heterozygosity in those birds that would make predicting their offspring very difficult if not mostly impossible.
We know based on his chicks with Cruella that Lady Gaga carries mottling (assuming that they are feathering mottled and weren't just very light-colored chicks). That picture makes him look more dun than blue as opposed to the previous picture, so now I'm wondering if he isn't just dun or platinum and that's why some of his chicks with Cruella were brownish, instead of that being because of him carrying a chocolate gene as I had speculated before. At any rate, that would mean that he could pass dun and blue (or one or the other if he only has one) to some of his chicks as well. So any of my answers also have the addition of maybe also black plumage being diluted to dun or blue as well, and possibly mottling popping up if both parties carry it.
The first hen has a heavily melanized silver partridge type of look to her to me, maybe heavily melanized silver duckwing. Pattern gene might be present there, I'm not totally sure. Crossing Lady Gaga to her I could see making something intermediate of their patterns, less black than her but more visible lacing than him perhaps? He is gold-based while she is silver based, so you should get gold-based daughters and gold-silver split sons that look silver at first from that pairing, but whether they will be sexable at hatch from that depends on other genes present in them so it's not a guarantee you'll know right of the bat.
The second hen looks like she is, indeed, wheaten. I'm not sure what we determined Lady Gaga's e-locus gene(s) was(/were) before, if we did at all, so that makes it tricky to guess what will come from her. Wheaten kind of falls in the middle as far as dominance of the e-locus goes. So what he produces with her entirely depends on what he has at that locus. They could be similar to her, or more similar to him. Her sons, of course, will be different from her either way because wheaten males look drastically different from wheaten females, appearing the same as duckwing males instead.
The last one is definitely mottled, so if Lady Gaga is carrying the gene, you'll get mottled babies from her for sure. Her base coloring looks like black tailed buff or maybe wheaten under her mottling. If she's BTB, then her chicks should resemble her mostly, possibly slightly darker due to genes that Gaga appears to have, and maybe with darker flecks here and there resembling mille fleur. If she's wheaten, then it's the same as the above hen, hard to predict for sure.
That's mostly speculation based on what the birds look like and how the genes I assume they have should behave, so no guarantees of course. You could get something totally different from any of that if the right genes are hiding in them. Sorry that's not really much help!
I see a lot of heterozygosity in those birds that would make predicting their offspring very difficult if not mostly impossible.We know based on his chicks with Cruella that Lady Gaga carries mottling (assuming that they are feathering mottled and weren't just very light-colored chicks). That picture makes him look more dun than blue as opposed to the previous picture, so now I'm wondering if he isn't just dun or platinum and that's why some of his chicks with Cruella were brownish, instead of that being because of him carrying a chocolate gene as I had speculated before.
At any rate, that would mean that he could pass dun and blue (or one or the other if he only has one) to some of his chicks as well. So any of my answers also have the addition of maybe also black plumage being diluted to dun or blue as well, and possibly mottling popping up if both parties carry it.The first hen has a heavily melanized silver partridge type of look to her to me, maybe heavily melanized silver duckwing. Pattern gene might be present there, I'm not totally sure. Crossing Lady Gaga to her I could see making something intermediate of their patterns, less black than her but more visible lacing than him perhaps? He is gold-based while she is silver based, so you should get gold-based daughters and gold-silver split sons that look silver at first from that pairing, but whether they will be sexable at hatch from that depends on other genes present in them so it's not a guarantee you'll know right of the bat.
The second hen looks like she is, indeed, wheaten. I'm not sure what we determined Lady Gaga's e-locus gene(s) was(/were) before, if we did at all, so that makes it tricky to guess what will come from her. Wheaten kind of falls in the middle as far as dominance of the e-locus goes. So what he produces with her entirely depends on what he has at that locus. They could be similar to her, or more similar to him. Her sons, of course, will be different from her either way because wheaten males look drastically different from wheaten females, appearing the same as duckwing males instead.
The last one is definitely mottled, so if Lady Gaga is carrying the gene, you'll get mottled babies from her for sure. Her base coloring looks like black tailed buff or maybe wheaten under her mottling. If she's BTB, then her chicks should resemble her mostly, possibly slightly darker due to genes that Gaga appears to have, and maybe with darker flecks here and there resembling mille fleur. If she's wheaten, then it's the same as the above hen, hard to predict for sure.
That's mostly speculation based on what the birds look like and how the genes I assume they have should behave, so no guarantees of course. You could get something totally different from any of that if the right genes are hiding in them. Sorry that's not really much help!
Hi, Dawg! How's it going?
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Great! Thanks! You!?Hi, Dawg!
I miss English muffins... I haven't found any that are GF. Or bagels either.
Aww I’m sorry! That sucks
Maybe you could order some? I Googled and found a couple but idk if they’re any good or not.
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