Genetics! I have no idea... HELP!

[Chicken0Boy]

I am wanting to start breeding some chickens, and I have found somebody who has true Blue Hens of Delaware. I am thinking of getting a trio of them. Besides that though I have a flock of 3 white silkie hens, 1 black cochin roo, 1 black cochin frizzle, and 1 white cochin frizzle. Keep in mind I am completely new to genetics.

So here are some of my questions...

1. What kind of chicks could I get from flock?

2. What are some recessive color/traits in chickens all together?

3. What are some dominant colors/traits in chickens all together?

4. What is inter breeding? (I think that is what it is called)

5. Any other info I might need for breeding?


Thanks!

 

[Illia]

The blue color of the Blue of Delaware chickens is dominant, it will pop up in 50% of the offspring. The silkied feathering from the Silkies is recessive, it will not pop up in the offspring, and the feathering on the legs of the Cochins is dominant, it will pop up in all the offspring from the Cochin. Frizzling is another dominant trait, however, frizzled chickens only have one gene, so like blue, it will pop up in 50% of the offspring. The white of the Silkie will either pop up in all of the offspring from it or none, as white can be recessive or dominant, and I don't remember which it is in Silkies.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

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Wow! Thank you. Do you have any other genetics info? For like all chickens.

 

[Henk69]

2. recessive white; silky; yellow skin (instead of white)

3. black skin (fibromelanosis); crest; beard; feathered legs; rosecomb; frizzle; sexlinked barring

Delawares are columbian which is a dominant trait BUT "recessive" to self black. Better word is hypostatic.
Recessive white, once established (purebreed), is "dominant" to all other colors. This is called epistatic.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

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I had to read that like 5 times to get it!

More questions!

1. Even though they are dominant I will still have a chance of getting something different, right?
2. Silkies have black skin so that is dominant, right?
3. The coloring of Columbian and Delawares is a dominant trait, but recessive when breed with a black chicken, right?
4. Oh, and what is self black?

 

[Henk69]

1.Yes
2.Yes
3.Yes
4.self black = fully black, unicolor black, all black. Genetic word is "extended black".

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Most white silkies are recessive white. Should add that recessive genes will not SHOW in the first generation, but may in the second, if each parent carries at least one copy of the recessive gene.

 

[RioLindoAz]

What would sex-linked recessive be considered?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Blue hens of Delaware are not delawares. I think the state of Delaware is their origin, though http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/DelBlue/BRKDelBlue.html

Not a common breed in most places.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

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I know.

I have done some research and talked to a person who had them one here, and found out a person near me has them. I think there is only 2 or 3 people who have them on BYC! Genetics are harder than I thought!