Cream Legbars

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Ha Ha! I have been edited for bad language. I swear it wasn't that bad!

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Can we talk a little again about the signs that a hen is double cream? I don't think any of mine are but I am not sure if there is a "tell"?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I have never heard of double cream. I could see a double gold though. Cream is recessive so if it looks cream, it is. A gold hen can be gold but carry cream though

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

But that isn't what people have been discussing with males. That they can be single or double so wouldn't the females be the same?

 

[Bawk]

Picture time. Mine are 6 weeks old now, very sweet chicks. 2 Roos and 2 hens.
( ignore the polish in one picture, ha)

@chickat

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

But that isn't what people have been discussing with males. That they can be single or double so wouldn't the females be the same?

Maybe I need to go back and read old posts but the way a recessive works is that if it shows, it is 'pure' for it. So lets take combs for example. If you have a pair of rose comb birds and get single combed birds, they would be what you are calling 'double' single comb. If those single combed birds are mated together you will only get single combs. So if you mate two gold birds together that carry cream and get cream offspring, they will not throw golds when mated together.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Maybe I need to go back and read old posts but the way a recessive works is that if it shows, it is 'pure' for it. So lets take combs for example. If you have a pair of rose comb birds and get single combed birds, they would be what you are calling 'double' single comb. If those single combed birds are mated together you will only get single combs. So if you mate two gold birds together that carry cream and get cream offspring, they will not throw golds when mated together.

It is certainly possible that I am just really confused but I thought that is what the whole wing triangle being white or not was about.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Picture time. Mine are 6 weeks old now, very sweet chicks. 2 Roos and 2 hens.
( ignore the polish in one picture, ha)

@chickat

Your chicks are adorable!

 

[sol2go]

I have never heard of double cream. I could see a double gold though. Cream is recessive so if it looks cream, it is. A gold hen can be gold but carry cream though

double for cream = homozygous for cream
Roosters and Hens both need two copies of cream to express cream, correct?

A gold hen that only carries one copy of cream is heterozygous for cream. As Cream is recessive, the gold is not suppressed (whether or not it is partially affected is a whole other discussion).

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[sol2go]

Can we talk a little again about the signs that a hen is double cream? I don't think any of mine are but I am not sure if there is a "tell"?

A hen that is homozygous for cream will have characteristics in keeping with the SOP. I'm lazy and call it double for cream.
Perhaps @KPenley could pop-in?