Leghorns aside from being a white egg layer, they carry genes that inhibit brown pigment so their eggs are the whitest.Can you tell me more about the whitening genes and how the genetics around that work?
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Leghorns aside from being a white egg layer, they carry genes that inhibit brown pigment so their eggs are the whitest.Can you tell me more about the whitening genes and how the genetics around that work?
Yes and quite a straight forward matterSo true breeding olive eggers are possible?
So I can have pure pastel green eggers?Yes and quite a straight forward matter
How would you go about doing it? Let's say my original post involved not legbars but ameraucanas, would that work?Yes and quite a straight forward matter
Yes...So I can have pure pastel green eggers?
Nice.Yes...
We know how to cross for a first generation all olive eggers and back cross to a dark brown roo (or hen) for darker olive eggs and brown eggs, and cull the brown egg layers. What next?
Thats right, males with pea comb have about a 94-96% chance of inheriting the O mutation(Oocyan blue eggshell) if you cross P/p+ females(BC1) with their bothers which are also P/p+ you will end up with 50% P/p+(kind of floppy pea comb), 25% p+/p+(single comb) and 25% P/P(very well formed small pea comb) those birds(males and females) have a 94-96% chance of being both O/O which will enhance the colorbut their brothers we won't know that about right? How will we know if any given male from that outcome is O/O? Or is that where pea comb comes in?