Creating Experimental Black Crele Chickens (Different Genetics, new variety)

[MysteryChicken]

Feather sexing doesn't work though. Its not accurate, and you'll only be right 50% of the time on average.

I sexed the silkies I hatched, and was correct on gender 2 roos, 3 pullets.

 

[Cyprus]

She has buff Orpington in her genetics.

Are you thinking Buff Orpington is a breed? Buff is the color, Orpington in the breed. She has Orpington breed in her genetics but no buff color in her genetics.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Give me a few days and I'll be back with some better reading material for you Misty. You're not understanding how sex linkage works.

Are you thinking Buff Orpington is a breed? Buff is the color, Orpington in the breed. She has Orpington breed in her genetics but no buff color in her genetics.

Nobody seems to understand what I'm trying to say. Yes I know buff is the color, plus the chick can still have the gold gene, but won't be active, or will be turned off. The silver shows because of the double crossing which makes silver the active gene, therefore the gold isn't dominant, or show. The gold will probably show if I bred her back to the father or to a sibling.

 

[Cyprus]

Nobody seems to understand what I'm trying to say. Yes I know buff is the color, plus the chick can still have the gold gene, but won't be active, or will be turned off. The silver shows because of the double crossing which makes silver the active gene, therefore the gold isn't dominant, or show. The gold will probably show if I bred her back to the father or to a sibling.

Are you aware of how color blindness works in humans? It relates to this, I swear.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I sexed the silkies I hatched, and was correct on gender 2 roos, 3 pullets.

Yes? Its the law of averages. You're gonna be right sometimes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes? Its the law of averages. You're gonna be right sometimes.

I study the differences with feathering pattern, and shape then go from there.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Are you aware of how color blindness works in humans? It relates to this, I swear.

What do you mean exactly?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I study the differences with feathering pattern, and shape then go from there.

I know how it works, I taught myself as well so that I could sex my first set of chicks. According to what I had, I was supposed to have 3 out of 5 cockerels. So I went and got more. Guess what, I didn't. I had all girls. Feather sexing is unreliable at best.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I know how it works, I taught myself as well so that I could sex my first set of chicks. According to what I had, I was supposed to have 3 our of 5 cockerels. So I went and got more. Guess what, I didn't. I had all girls. Feather sexing is unreliable at best.

Well, that's you. This is the first time I was wrong on one chick that I feather sexed.

 

[Cyprus]

What do you mean exactly?

Color blindness is a sex linked trait.

If males have a copy, they are color blind. Females need two copies to be color blind but can be carriers with one copy. If a male is color blind he can pass it on to his children, but if he is not he has nothing to pass on.

Your pullet, if she expressed buff, would pass that on to her offspring. But she doesn't, so she has no copies to pass on. Therefore, breeding your silver barred pullet back to another silver base chickens will not produce any chicks who carry buff because there is literally no buff genes to give. Make sense?