Golden pheasant genetics question

[cscarney]

Yeah, I figured genetics might get complicated pretty quickly. And that's ignoring the possibility of random mutations. I should be able to get pix of the pair later today, so I hope that will be useful for you.

I raise Shetland sheep, and the genetics of color inheritance and expression are interesting there, with multiple alleles allowing black/brown color expression (dominant white >grey>badgerface>lightbadgerface>solid), modifiers, spotting (multiple genes there which control where and how much contrast color shows up), and some other things we're still trying to figure out....And then there's horn inheritance, which MIGHT be sex linked, at least in rams, but seems to be more straightforward in ewes....

 

[cscarney]

Here's the yellow golden hen. I apologize for the poor picture quality--she is a bit skittish and does not want to stand still. Also she looks more than a bit moth eaten at the moment because she's molting....

 

[cscarney]

And the peach splash cock. He's a bit friendlier, but I know the pix still aren't great between the lighting and the fact that he's also in molt. Sorry about that! I'll try for better shots over the weekend.

 

[mustangkid]

And the peach splash cock. He's a bit friendlier, but I know the pix still aren't great between the lighting and the fact that he's also in molt. Sorry about that! I'll try for better shots over the weekend.

How did the chicks turn out from this pair

 

[pleasant pheasants]

What you say is true...except you don't know the lineages...there is also homozygous dominance, heterozygous recessive, codominace, polygenic traits and epistasis involved as well as dihybrid and trihybrid influences to consider....can get very complicated real fast.

If peach is truly a somatic recessive, then the offspring (the F1 of the peach splash-yellow parents) would be split for peach splash (each carrying one copy of the peach splash gene that isn't expressed because it's recessive to yellow). The way to test this would be to breed the F1 daughters back to the peach splash cock.

That is a brief intro that is more than I am ready for, thank you. I was given a peach cock, if I get a peach hen will their ofspring be peach or only a chance of being a peach.

 

[007Sean]

That is a brief intro that is more than I am ready for, thank you. I was given a peach cock, if I get a peach hen will their ofspring be peach or only a chance of being a peach.

Depends on their genetics! If one of them has 'splash' in them you will get a percentage of those that willl look peach but carry the splash gene and those that will look splash. If both male and female birds were bred correctly to get Peach only genetics then you will get Peach offspring.

 

[pleasant pheasants]

Depends on their genetics! If one of them has 'splash' in them you will get a percentage of those that willl look peach but carry the splash gene and those that will look splash. If both male and female birds were bred correctly to get Peach only genetics then you will get Peach offspring.

Thank you, you are the man. I would like to see your operation and learn from you.