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

[black_cat]

Can you explain a little more? I honestly have no idea about a lot of this but I'm very interested XD

From what I know, the colors blue, black, and splash, when cross, don't all breed true and result in other combinations of those colors.

 

[black_cat]

From what I know, the colors blue, black, and splash, when cross, don't all breed true and result in other combinations of those colors.
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The white ones in there are splash.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Soooo.................I really want to learn about chicken genetics, especially with colors, as I'd like to get into breeding someday and I need to know these things. Are there any good crash course sources? I also have some specific questions:
-what genes make a sex linked chick?
-how can a bird be carrying genes for, say, blue, if they're a black bird?
-how do you decode those seemingly random blobs of letters and symbols that mean things? They have a lot of ^ and +? Like E^wh+ as an example of what I'm talking about? (I know that 'E^wh+' probably isn't a real thing but you get the idea.
I'm specifically interested in these to help further my understanding of breeding to SOP and breeding projects/creating 'new breeds'.

I have some links you can try to learn from.

 

[black_cat]

Hmmmmm......seems I've amassed a crew of curious questioners......time to get someone who knows something about genetics down here. Oi! @MysteryChicken ! @themoonshiner

 

[black_cat]

Hmmmmm......seems I've amassed a crew of curious questioners......time to get someone who knows something about genetics down here. Oi! @MysteryChicken ! @themoonshiner

You posted right before I tagged you

 

[MysteryChicken]

You posted right before I tagged you

Yep.

 

[EverV]

I have some links you can try to learn from.

Ooooh yes yes yes

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I don't know much about this, but I do know that a blue crossed with a blue can lead to black, white, blue, and more. I'm interested in this stuff too.

Blue x blue usually doesn’t give you white, unless both of the parents have recessive white. That off-white color with blue spots is called splash.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Give me a couple minutes, & I'll link the sites.

 

[EverV]

Blue x blue usually doesn’t give you white, unless both of the parents have recessive white. That off-white color with blue spots is called splash.

Very interesting