Eastern Tennessee Thread

[bairo]

WARNING...PIC HEAVY, lol

I uploaded them small but if you click on one it goes to a full size. I'm also uploading to my page which has my google album link on it for the rest of the pics. I think they go in order, so those should be on the last page or the last ones on the bottom (however it gets uploaded)

 

[stanglover2001]

Rodney, they are darling! It makes me have chick envy!

 

[TNBarnQueen]

ok... I need to remember who I got it from on here so I can credit them though.

One thing you have to consider in breeding for color, pattern..etc is that there is a standard genetic equation. Now...with that said..many instances our chickens have not read that book. For the last week I have been breeding my crele to a darker color crele (chocolate) I have 3 white chicks with just a light blush of buff. I should have gotten only crele. I bred my blue splash hen to a white SG roo....got only blue SGs all summer. And I wanted splash!!!!
I have worked with a geneticist at UK on my horses. He told me that my Cremello stud and Bay mare will result in 75% Buckskin and 26% Palomino. She threw a Blue Roan this past spring. This color gene came from 5 generations back in her lineage. So...What I am saying that we can expect the charts to be correct buy don't be surprised if you get a "blip" from time to time. It is very interesting. I know Lori PMed me a few months ago and ask me if I was getting completely different colorations from my D'Uccles than what I got in the spring...well I had...and so had she.
The thing that I wonder about since some genetic modifiers can jump a few generations do we stand the possibility of traits showing up in our chickens that came from originally project birds. Such as different breeds that where used to develop a new variety or breed.

 

[littlechicklet]

Rodney, they are darling! It makes me have chick envy!

x2

 

[bairo]

Tnckn

So I was wrong on the amount of time it will take me to spot the blues. One is very obvious in the next to last pic

 

[tnchickenut]

One thing you have to consider in breeding for color, pattern..etc is that there is a standard genetic equation. Now...with that said..many instances our chickens have not read that book. For the last week I have been breeding my crele to a darker color crele (chocolate) I have 3 white chicks with just a light blush of buff. I should have gotten only crele. I bred my blue splash hen to a white SG roo....got only blue SGs all summer. And I wanted splash!!!!
I have worked with a geneticist at UK on my horses. He told me that my Cremello stud and Bay mare will result in 75% Buckskin and 26% Palomino. She threw a Blue Roan this past spring. This color gene came from 5 generations back in her lineage. So...What I am saying that we can expect the charts to be correct buy don't be surprised if you get a "blip" from time to time. It is very interesting. I know Lori PMed me a few months ago and ask me if I was getting completely different colorations from my D'Uccles than what I got in the spring...well I had...and so had she.
The thing that I wonder about since some genetic modifiers can jump a few generations do we stand the possibility of traits showing up in our chickens that came from originally project birds. Such as different breeds that where used to develop a new variety or breed.

Exactly, and with chickens it is far worse.... show breeders sneak other breeds in there to improve stock (If it LOOKS like a black Australorp to the judge, then you can call it a black Australorp.... but it may not be genetically a black Australorp as example) So there is that.... then there is hatchery stock that sometimes doesn't even LOOK like the breed it's supposed to be.... then there are people who just simply play or cross -- on purpose or by accident, doesn't matter. Point is, you may have bought from someone who says "Yeah, they are white rocks" but they genetically aren't exactly perfectly white rocks.

I'm tired. But yes, you are right. Genetics doesn't always do what it is supposed to because we really don't KNOW what genetic foundation we even have to start with.

 

[tnchickenut]

bairo... who is the white ones?

 

[bairo]

those were some bonus eggs I got with the rocks. They are from a project with SQ Lav Ameraucana over well bred white leghorns.

 

[itsthelaw37801]

That one little yellow thing stuck in the middle of all that dark is too cute.

 

[itsthelaw37801]

Tommy brought home a box of honeybuns. Looks like he's setting a bunch of traps tonight.