Dixie Chicks

[1kluckychik]

How? Lavender is recessive so it takes 2 copies to express...

The F1 would be splits to Lav.
The same way you get your Lav Am from black splits

 

[Ravynscroft]

The F1 would be splits to Lav.
The same way you get your Lav Am from black splits

Yeah, I know that... was asking how it would explain what he looks like?? If he was a split, wouldn't he have Legbar coloring?

 

[Alaskan]

The F1 would be splits to Lav.
The same way you get your Lav Am from black splits

Yeah, I know that... was asking how it would explain what he looks like?? If he was a split, wouldn't he have Legbar coloring?

True... But then I totally dunno, BECAUSE

I just hatched some eggs from a pen with two males (one a lavender and one a goldneck) and two females (buff and a light buff a bit laced)

And what kind of chicks? At least one looks awfully like lavender down.

 

[1kluckychik]

Yeah, I know that... was asking how it would explain what he looks like?? If he was a split, wouldn't he have Legbar coloring?

That male you have is Isabelle (2 lav genes replacing the brown (or dark brown).
Cross him with female cream legbars to get splits to lav (isabelle). Those offspring look like cream legbar chicks but carry a copy of lav. Crossing those together will throw about 50% cream legbar looking chicks but expressing the lav color replacing the brown.

Exactly the way the lavender in ams replace the black when breeding splits

 

[1kluckychik]

True... But then I totally dunno, BECAUSE

I just hatched some eggs from a pen with two males (one a lavender and one a goldneck) and two females (buff and a light buff a bit laced)

And what kind of chicks? At least one looks awfully like lavender down.

It is confusing. We crossed blue isbars with isabelle leghorns and most chicks were BLACK.

 

[Outpost JWB]

I am so confused.......interested, but confused

 

[1kluckychik]

And then there would be breeding back and testing for 2 blue egg color genes.

Tara will prob chime in and cuss me out.

 

[Ravynscroft]

He looks more like a blue... Or lavender than an Isabelle. Hummmmm

Very pretty though.

That male you have is Isabelle (2 lav genes replacing the brown (or dark brown).
Cross him with female cream legbars to get splits to lav (isabelle). Those offspring look like cream legbar chicks but carry a copy of lav. Crossing those together will throw about 50% cream legbar looking chicks but expressing the lav color replacing the brown.

Exactly the way the lavender in ams replace the black when breeding splits

Ok, here's where the confusion came from...

Alaskan's quote saying he looked bluish, not Isabelle... and you continued with what to do with him, lol...

My problem is, we are looking to downsize drastically... another project is just not in the plans right now, lol...

It is confusing. We crossed blue isbars with isabelle leghorns and most chicks were BLACK.

That actually makes sense... Lavender is a recessive of black and blue is diluted black...

 

[Alaskan]

But f the chickens were phenotypically blue isbar ah! One black gene in them, one dilute gene

Isabelle leghorns would have two lavendars... So no blacks.... Right?

So... You should ... Uh... Have had 50% black?????

 

[1kluckychik]

But f the chickens were phenotypically blue isbar ah! One black gene in them, one dilute gene

Isabelle leghorns would have two lavendars... So no blacks.... Right?

So... You should ... Uh... Have had 50% black?????

Right. Isabelle x isabelle throws all isabelle chicks. But the lav dilutes over time and has to be crossed back to brown or dark brown to maintain the deep color.

Although blue and lav look similar...totally different genes.

The lav gene is a recessive gene. It did not express on the blue isbar x isabelle leghorn. We got 85% black chicks from that cross.
The kippenjungle color calculator says we should have gotten 50% blue and 50% black chicks.