Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

[EmmaRainboe]

does the / separate e ach of the parents?

I believe it's the two seperate allels it inherets, cause you know like on a punnet square it gets one from each parent...... I could be wrong though. That's just what I thought it meant.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

does the / separate e ach of the parents?

Like if the offspring got one Lav+ from the mom and one lav from the dad (the offspring would be top right, if mom is on side and dad is on top) it would be Lav+/lav making it split for lavender..... I think.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I believe it's the two seperate allels it inherets, cause you know like on a punnet square it gets one from each parent...... I could be wrong though. That's just what I thought it meant.
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This is correct. Like O/O are blue egg layers, and it means the bird got a blue egg gene from each parent.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

what does e+ and E+ mean? Is it e+ is recessive and E+ is dominant? What do they mean?

What do these things mean.....

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Uppercase and lowercase generally refer to a gene being "on" or "off". So a blue black splash looks like;

bl/bl (black), BL/bl (blue), BL/BL(splash)

Because blue is a dilution of black and is semi dominant.

In blue eggs, o/o is a "normal" colored egg, "O/o" is a blue egg and "O/O" is a blue egg, because blue is completely dominant.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Each one of those things on the calculator represents a different gene, as listed. For example, the "e" allele (extension of black) determines how much black there is or isn't on the feathers and the body of the bird. B determines barring. And Bl determines black dilution.

So lets say you have a hen (which can only carry one copy of the barring gene).

You have a simple E/E dominant black chicken. Your hen is solid black because it has full pigment everywhere.
Then you have a B/~ because your chicken is female and can only carry one copy. The chicken is now barred black.
Then you have BL/bl. The chicken now carries a single dilution gene. It is now blue.

So you have a black, diluted to blue, with barring.

And this is now your chicken.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Each one of those things on the calculator represents a different gene, as listed. For example, the "e" allele (extension of black) determines how much black there is or isn't on the feathers and the body of the bird. B determines barring. And Bl determines black dilution.

So lets say you have a hen (which can only carry one copy of the barring gene).

You have a simple E/E dominant black chicken. Your hen is solid black because it has full pigment everywhere.
Then you have a B/~ because your chicken is female and can only carry one copy. The chicken is now barred black.
Then you have BL/bl. The chicken now carries a single dilution gene. It is now blue.

So you have a black, diluted to blue, with barring.

And this is now your chicken.

If it had two dilution genes would it be splash?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

If it had two dilution genes would it be splash?

Yes!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Sorry if I'm being annoying, but what do these things at the bottom mean?
Also what's the difference between a "silky single comb", and a "single comb"

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Sorry if I'm being annoying, but what do these things at the bottom mean?
Also what's the difference between a "silky single comb", and a "single comb"
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Honestly? I have no idea. I haven't studied chickens enough to be familiar with all their genes. As you can see there's a lot of them.

Now if this were rabbits I'd have all the answers for you. XD There's a lot of overlap between rabbits and chickens, for example E determines how much black there is on hairs and what pattern it appears in just like it does for chickens. But I don't know every chicken feather and comb gene, just the important ones for my breeding program.