First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[JRNash]

Care to elucidate this poor slow witted chicken fanatic on how black spots appear when both parents are WHITE

 

[JRNash]

That was my long haired hippy word of the day.

 

[holm25]

That was my long haired hippy word of the day.

 

[JRNash]

Eggs are hatching like crazy!!! I love the sound of cheeping chicks!!! The last time I did this my DW tried to talk me into placing one egg a day into the incubators. Her and my daughter got extremely excited when they would come home from work and school to find new chicks hatched. My wife was sad when the last one hatched.lol

 

[JRNash]

I almost bought some black sex links yesterday ta TSC. It seems like I have fewer problems from predators and feather picking with dark birds

 

[JRNash]

this is one of the Saipan x welp slow grow broilers. She goes broody at the drop of a hat. If you look close you can see the dark spots

 

[duluthralphie]

Care to elucidate this poor slow witted chicken fanatic on how black spots appear when both parents are WHITE

Because we are dealing with a ton of genes that have been trampled on for generations. I am gussing we have some color genetics in them somewhere along the line.

Either the mechanism to express the color is worn out ( no longer primary or dilute by generations of other genes).

Now if it is truly sex linked it would be the ability to express only white is on the Z, I think. Or the spots are on the spots W. It is the same reason the barring is more complete on them, the barring being on the Z.

So a ZZ (male) has better Barring than a WZ female.

If either the spots or no spots is a recessive gene it would take the generations time to make bird where the spots would show....If that makes any sense. It is the same reason I did not have white legbars for several generations and now have toms of them.

 

[JRNash]

I'm gonna leave all the heavy thinking to those better equipped.lol.

 

[JRNash]

Im wondering about the multi generation crosses to reach CX. I wonder if they use sex links of some type

 

[JRNash]

Literature I've read claims White Plymouth Rocks in the mix. I'm wondering if they didn't use the barred PR's. I know that of all the breeds I've sent to camp the barred rocks had the best body shape. They LOOKED like CX but on a smaller scale