Genetics help

[Blw18]

It is cool that you have an idea in your head and that you are interested in genetics. I love it when people show so much interest in poultry. Keep at it!

Oh I will! Thank you for helping me though...I will try to find some buckeyes if I can get some good ones. I’ve probably made this project a lot harder for myself than it could be but it is what it is at this point

 

[Feathercrazie]

Hello everyone, I need help with the genetics within my line. I am creating a new breed and I’m around 4 years in at the moment. I’m looking to make very muscular, tall, impressive breed with a pea comb, yellow clean legs, red earlobes, white/yellow skin, dark eyes, beetle brows, and a thick, curved beak. It should be a good laying breed with great meat qualities as well. I’m looking to introduce jubilee coloring into the breed as well as several others. At the moment, I’ve gotten pretty close as far as the “look” I’m wanting but I’ve got a long way to go. There’s several project birds with the dominant white gene with orange, beige, and black leakage, several blacks (roosters have red saddle and hackle feathers so I guess black copper), one crele, and a few cuckoo. In the current line, I’ve got turken, black langshan, orpington, egyptian fayoumi, and Brahma genetics that make up the current line. I’ll be introducing a 2nd generation cross rooster with the jubilee coloration, liege fighter, and Cornish cross later this fall and winter to add a bunch more of the traits I’m looking for. The main problem now is getting rid of the feathered legs, keeping good laying traits, getting yellow legs, introducing dark eyed genes, keeping the pea comb, and introducing the jubilee color. I was given great information on my thread about the breed but I still need help understanding the nitty-gritty genetics of it all. I’m expecting many years of work to complete this and I’m very determined to do it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

What you are describing is sounds like a Malay except they are typically not good egg layers. they are more seasonal egg layers, typical of most "game" types.

 

[BoogieWight]

Keep it up and don't let someone talk you out of a passion project. If everyone was truly worried about production be it meat or eggs, then there would only be a handful of breeds out there. We live in a world where money can't be beat and that is nowhere more true than food production. Think how far chickens have come in the last century. Chickens are something the average person can experiment with, which is probably my favorite thing about them. One thing I wish I would have done is collect the data better. Get good at something like Microsoft Access, take pictures, and record all the data you can. I have lost a lot of useful information because I put it on paper, or thought my memory could retain it years later. You can also see things in well recorded data that you can absolutely miss when your focus is too tight. There are also nerds like me that like to look through that kind of stuff.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Oh and if I wanted to create the porcelain color in my birds, how would I do that? I’ve got blue colored birds and jubilee colored birds on the farm right now. Do I need mottled and lavender or can I work with what I’ve got?

You could create blue jubilee and blue mottled with what you have, but not porcelain. Porcelain requires the lavender gene, which affects plumage differently than blue. You don’t need mottleds since you have jubilees.