First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[Kev]

And the only absolute is that we do not have all the information we need. Ralph and I think along the same lines.
It doesn't necessarily even have to be a"throwback" it can be that this birds gene expression has combined in just the right way to mimic one of the ancestral birds.There is no way to know.
Scientists have already made chickens grow teeth and tails in experiments by turning genes that were there but dormant "ON"

I just have to give up... you keep trying to run all over the place over a very simple issue.

It is this simple. If the chick has pea/walnut and there are pea/walnut bird in the flock then it is the parent.

To try to throw in everything, anything else is being willingly obtuse.

I give the same answer I just gave- ask others who know chicken genetics about the comb issue.

I'm out....

 

[JRNash]

And i do appreciate your comments and I do not discount nor do i belittle them. I simply beleive there OBVIOUSLY something going on here that is outside what I would have expected.

 

[JRNash]

I did get ahold of the hatchery about my dark cornish.Told them they must have had a hole in their fence

 

[duluthralphie]

Kev, you're full of chicken poop......

If the birds are carrying a recessive gene for something, it can hide for generations as a recessive. When the right two birds mate the recessive is presenting itself.

Under your theory White Sports should not exist, yet they can and after multiple generations, it simply lurks in the back until it happens, by chance to present itself.

There can be many reasons a gene does not present itself, even if the gene is not recessive there is the possibility of another gene being required to be dominant that allows the other gene to present itself. An example would be the gene that allows a white gene to present itself as white. For you to say a blanket statement of it can't happen shows your lack of understanding of genes either complete of incomplete.

Sorry to shake you comfy little world by showing you and example of a bird that can't exist in your world.

BTW there is the possibility of a mutation occurring, they do occur, and there is the possibility of an injury that makes a single comb look like a weird Pea Comb. What there is not is a chance that bird is anything but CLB.

 

[JRNash]

and this is the last one.lol
I'm not being obtuse. This bird does not have a pea comb. It does not have a walnut Comb. It doesn't have a blade.
I admit my eyes are bad. But i can't see any comb. Were you referring to Ralph's legbars?

 

[JRNash]

Ralph that was the point to my diatribe. There is no way to know which genes will be expressed. To date, we don't know what causes them to express. If it was as straight forward as has but forth there would be no need for an SOP

 

[JRNash]

Breed like to like and end up with like. Then up pops unlike

 

[Turk Raphael]

I threw in the towel Waaaay back.

 

[duluthralphie]

I threw in the towel Waaaay back.

I tried to throw the towel once but everyone threw it back at me screaming nasty stuff.

 

[Turk Raphael]

I tried to throw the towel once but everyone threw it back at me screaming nasty stuff.

PS...........again...I would like to own the bird in question, regardless of it's pedigree.