Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: Anytime, I am slowly working through a small list I want to work with right now

 

[Lilwanis]

Sorry for poor quality pic, I used my cell phone and could only get so close.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

 

[madamwlf]

SSS

Umm...please do not suggest that when it comes to a federally protected animal and on an open forum. It's not appropriate.

 

[madamwlf]

Who knows anything about the columbian genes???? I got 4 blue columbian brahma chicks from GFF and this is what I got. Can someone explain to me why I have 2 yellow chicks and 2 bluish yellow chicks because apparently Jenny can't.

 

[madamwlf]

Did I seriously just kill the thread?

 

[caj1985]

Did I seriously just kill the thread?

It has been unbelievably non-chatty this morning. I have thought the same thing on a couple of occasions.

 

[madamwlf]

It has been unbelievably non-chatty this morning. I have thought the same thing on a couple of occasions.

I'm not use to being home on a Monday.

 

[rbaker0345]

Only one looks like it might have good columbian coloring, the other one looks like its going to have a lot of smut on primaries. But when you're breeding dilutions like blues, if you do the punnet square for it, you only get 50% of the blue color and 50% of the base color, so it looks like you got maybe two light brahmas? I know there's more to it than that, but I also know that you only get a certain percentage of the desired color, just like Lav splits, except maybe a little more complicated.

I only know this because I got a tutorial from Paul Smith when I was trying to decide what mix of chicks to purchase from him. You would have to know whether columbian is dominant or recessive and whether the dilution is dominant or recessive and what the columbian color is mixed with to achieve the dilution and whether that is dominant or recessive. I get completely confused and I have a degree in genetics.

 

[tdhenson86]

Who knows anything about the columbian genes???? I got 4 blue columbian brahma chicks from GFF and this is what I got. Can someone explain to me why I have 2 yellow chicks and 2 bluish yellow chicks because apparently Jenny can't.

Columbian is incomplete dominant. That means, a bird can look Columbian with a few leaky spots on their back when grown (one copy of Columbian gene--likely what the blue/yellow chicks are). The blue chick will not be columbian. The yellow should have 2 copies of the gene. It looks like her Columbians are not true Columbians, but only carry 1 copy of the gene each. So, they will produce 25% full Columbian, 50% leaky Columbian, and 25% plain blue. Hope that helps.