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[Buster]

Too true and too funny!

The only trouble right now is that I hijacked her speckled sussex, got them their own rooster and told her she couldn't have their eggs anymore. Then I gave away the other "layers" for being wanna-be's and not laying. Everything else now except for two buff orps are PULLETS and we are anxiously awaiting our first eggs. The white orps should go first though and they should start laying very soon. I think around October we will be getting more eggs than we know what to do with.

 

[BamaChicken]

I sure would like to see pictures of your white Orps. I can't remember where you got them.

 

[Buster]

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I got them from sclanimals but she can't remember where she got the eggs she hatched them from.

 

[tiki244]

White Orps are so pretty! I would get more of those if I could. I heard the white chicken is the hardest to work with for color and the all black chicken is the easiest to set a color. That would be the fibromelanotic (SP?) black chicken. Sounds like a disease, and I dont know the spelling, but it is ALL black, including the comb and wattles. Similar to the silkies, I think it has the same gene or genes.

 

[tadkerson]

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If any body has given answers before this post please excuse me if I repeat your answer.

Black X white (dominant) = white or white with black specks in the feathers and or whole black feathers

Black X recessive white = a black bird or basically a black bird but males and females may leak red or silver (white) through the anterior end of the bird- white or red could show in the neck hackles, back and wing bows of the male, females leak red or silver in head, neck hackles and breast- the color that leaks and if it leaks depends on the genes found at the silver locus ( a sex linked gene) and E locus on the bird

Female birds can be silver or gold at the silver locus and pass the gene on to their sons. The father can have two silver or a silver and a gold or two gold genes at the silver locus. He gives a one gene to each daughter and one gene to each son.


Black X splash = all blue offspring

Black are usually extended black and melanotic or E/E, Ml/Ml (birds that have black shanks and feet)

Splash are usually E/E, Ml/Ml Bl/Bl they have two of the blue genes (Bl) therefore they are splash, the two blue genes dilute the black to the splash color.

A blue bird is E/E, Ml/Ml Bl/bl+ and only has one blue gene- one blue gene dilutes the black to a blue color.


The fibromelanotic gene Fm has to work with another gene called dermal melanin id+ to make the skin of a bird black. The Fm gene by itself will not make the skin black. The id+ gene is sex linked (found on a Z sex chromosome)and the Fm gene is autosomal ( not found on a sex chromosome). Silkies are a good example of the black skin thing.


Tim

 

[MissPrissy]

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Black X white (dominant) = white or white with black specks in the feathers and or whole black feathers.

I am completely confused. I have repeatedly been told this won't produce a specked feathering.

 

[Guitartists]

I think maybe he means a stray feather or so?

Not a nice solid color like you would want, but rather with rouge feathers...LOL

 

[tadkerson]

I am not talking about mottling. Mottling is caused by a recessive gene. The specks of color ( like pepper) or blotches of black are due to the fact that dominant white is not completely dominant it is actually incompletely dominant ( dominant white does not cover red pigment). Birds that are dominant white , leghorns and cornish cross, have all kinds of genes to help make the bird completely white. They have silver, mottling, barring and even the blue gene in addition to the two dominant white genes.

Tim

 

[MissPrissy]

Ohhhhhh, I think I got the idea now. When you noted peppering it clicked!