Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

[nicalandia]

They have to arrive at the port of entry sterilized in a sealed labeled package.

Who is doing the sterilization? and if they follow the steps to preserve the DNA sample

 

[DarJones]

That is still being worked out. I'm not enough in the loop. I can purchase the heat sensitive sealing tape and make up a package but have not yet tried to send a package of my own. My previous samples were sent in along with samples from the Silverudds group.

 

[jake and pippa]

i know this is not the answer you are looking for, but you might want to consider moving to Isbar as layers of beautiful green eggs.

 

[Starbawk]

Hey @nicalandia do you know how soon I will be able to tell comb type? Day old? Several weeks old? Somewhere in between?

 

[nicalandia]

Hey @nicalandia do you know how soon I will be able to tell comb type? Day old? Several weeks old? Somewhere in between?

P/p+ and P/P chicks will look similar when chick since their comb is not that large, but you will only see the compact P/P homozygous Pea Comb once they start reaching puberty

 

[Starbawk]

P/p+ and P/P chicks will look similar when chick since their comb is not that large, but you will only see the compact P/P homozygous Pea Comb once they start reaching puberty

If I get one that's p+/p+ will that be obvious any earlier? It would be helpful to know, to be able to give away the straight combed chicks early on and keep the ones I'd like to breed. In the first cross of my EE to BCM I can only get P/p+ or p+/p+ anyway. Later I'll have a chance of any of the three types.

 

[nicalandia]

If I get one that's p+/p+ will that be obvious any earlier? It would be helpful to know, to be able to give away the straight combed chicks early on

Yes, p+/p+ chicks you can cull earlier, these chicks have a very low chance of inheriting the Oocyan mutation by meiotic crossing over

 

[NatJ]

If I get one that's p+/p+ will that be obvious any earlier? It would be helpful to know, to be able to give away the straight combed chicks early on and keep the ones I'd like to breed.

When I've had chicks with P/P pea combs and p+/p+ single combs, I could see the difference from a very early age: the single combs looked very skinny next to the pea combs. I haven't dealt with crosses between the two, so I don't have experience with the P/p+ appearance in chicks.

You could examine all chicks in the first batch, mark them in some way (ink or leg bands, or separate into different pens), and then grow them up a bit to check yourself-- that will let you know how accurately you can tell at what age.

 

[artbykarenehaley]

Are the whiting's true greens a hybrid or bird that breeds true for olive egg color

 

[NatJ]

Are the whiting's true greens a hybrid or bird that breeds true for olive egg color

I think they are supposed to breed true for egg color, but it's just described as green, not olive. "Olive" usually refers to the darker shades of green chicken eggs, not all green eggs.