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

[MysteryChicken]

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?

I'll test it out, too be 100% sure who's correct on this one.

 

[Cyprus]

I'll test it out, too be 100% sure who's correct on this one.

It's proven science but

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's proven science but

But, what?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

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

yea, and you got lucky. Should have played the lotto that week.

 

[MysteryChicken]

yea, and you got lucky. Should have played the lotto that week.

I've been feather sexing mixed breeds for a year now.

 

[The Moonshiner]

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.

I understand what you're saying but it isn't correct. Silver/gold doesn't work like that with a pullet.
A pullet has to be an either or it can't be both.
She is either gold or she is silver. She can not be gold and silver with gold hiding because of the silver.
What you're explaining is how it works with males only.
What you're explaining is what your rooster is. He is gold/silver. His silver is dominate and his gold is hiding underneather. Where the yellowish is in his hackles and saddle is the telltale sign that he has one gold gene.

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[RoostersAreAwesome]

I've been feather sexing mixed breeds for a year now.

How many mixed breeds have you sexed? How many incorrectly and correctly?

 

[Cyprus]

Some mixed breeds can be feather sexed, I.E Anconas over Leghorns. But not all.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Some mixed breeds can be feather sexed, I.E Anconas over Leghorns. But not all.

Nothing over a leghorns works for feather sexing.
The male needs to be the fast feathering breed and the hen the slow feathering breed.
Leghorns are fast feathering.

 

[Cyprus]

Nothing over a leghorns works for feather sexing.
The male needs to be the fast feathering breed and the hen the slow feathering breed.
Leghorns are fast feathering.

Thanks