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Hey Gypsy-lion, I have a genetics question I don't care to post on the genetic thread:
My 'wild child' is 1/2 lav, 1/2 mf. If I cross to a gold & white goldneck do you think I'll get gn, or blue mf?
And if I cross the wildchild with a cream d'uccle, do you think there's a chance of getting porcelains?
I won't know until spring, as the goldnecks are only about 6-8 weeks old (little sisters of Acid_chipmunk's soon-to-be goldnecks).
Most of my project crosses of lav x mf are gold-laced. I don't know exactly how to program that into the calculator, but have been playing wth it. I am not getting ANY true mottleds from the crossing, and very few black birds (strictly hens) and an amazing number of pullets with a little bit of rooster tail-feathering. Weird....
Will try and get some pics to illustrate this.
I'm very flattered you asked me! Unfortunately, I don't have a solid answer for you...
I don't know how the goldneck or cream genes work yet... so far I feel like I really only understand the MF/Porc genes, and maybe a little of the mottled and self-blue. I'm interested to see the pics of what you're getting, tho! If I come across any better info as I'm researching, I'll definitely let you know.
havent seen "wild child" but if it's 1/2 lav and 1/2 millie, it should be black
to get porcelain, you could breed it back to another millie/lav split
it usually takes about 3 years to lavender pattern a bird
if you breed them to goldneck though, the dominate white in the gold neck will cancel out all black and blue colors, so you will just get more goldneck.
as for the lack of mottleing, that's to be expected on a split mottled bird, mottled is rec. gene and takes a double dose for it to show up.
as far as the gold neck color, it is millie fluer crossed to dominate white, the dom, white dilutes the body color to that gold we like so much, but the dominate white will always over ride all black based colors, so it's no good for your intended breeding.
as for the cream gene, it will not give any chance at porcelain either, it will give you the lemon cream millies. It is a diluter of gold, turns it cream.
to get to porcelain
breed a millie to a laveneder
you should get all black F1 birds reguardless of color used.
back breed those
OR
breed back to lavender 1 year this will give you lavenders and more blcks.
use only the lavenders now (some will be split mottled, some just lavender, no way to know without breeding)
anyway, now take those lavenders and breed back to your millies
you will get some of a little bit of all of them then, but yes porcelain will come out from the ones that were lavender split to mottled then.