Help with Breed

[All4Eggz]

I do have more chickens on our land. These are backyard pets with the benefit of a few eggs. I will probably find the cockerels new homes and be happy with what's left.

Good idea. Since you like the D'uccle, maybe you could keep him!

Where are you located? I might be able to take a cockerel... I'm in MA.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

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That bird is not a cream legbar. This is:
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Look up male cream legbar chick I'm pretty sure it is.

 

[Dlstid]

Good idea. Since you like the D'uccle, maybe you could keep him!

Where are you located? I might be able to take a cockerel... I'm in MA.

I'm in NW Arkansas.

 

[All4Eggz]

I'm in NW Arkansas.

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A bit too far

 

[black_cat]

Nope! Most genes are either dominant or recessive. Hang on and I can draw a quick chart to show inheritance. I have one that I really like, but I can't find it.

Here we go. This chart is with the colors black and buff in cocker spaniels. The 'b' stands for the buff gene, which is recessive, and the 'B' stands for the black gene, which is dominant. therefore, any dog that has the black gene will appear black, because it is dominant over buff. Only a dog with two buff genes will appear buff. If you cross a dog that is pure for black and a dog that is pure for buff, you will get puppies that are black, but carry the buff gene. If you cross two of those dogs, you will get one puppy that is pure for black, two that appear black but carry the buff gene, and one that is pure for buff.
The frizzle gene should work a similar way, but you should not be crossing two frizzles together because it makes unhealthy birds called frazzles.

 

[black_cat]

C

Look up male cream legbar chick I'm pretty sure it is.

If it were a cream legbar, it would have yellow legs.

 

[NatJ]

I thought if you crossed a non-frizzled bird to a frizzled bird, it might have some frizzle in it.

Well, sort-of, but the usual kind of frizzle already is the "half frizzle" version.

If you cross a frizzle to a normal bird, half the chicks should have normal feathers, and the other half should be frizzled.

But if you cross two frizzles together, you get some chicks that are extra-frizzled and have problems ("frazzles"). So the usual advice is to not breed frizzles to each other.

Nope! Most genes are either dominant or recessive.

Actually, incomplete dominants are pretty common. There's blue (black/blue/splash), and frizzle, and pea comb (pure for pea gives a much smaller comb than just one copy of the gene), and V comb (one copy of the gene gives a comb that looks like a Buttercup comb), and short legs (two copies kills the chick), and ear tufts (two copies kills the chick), and Dominant White (one copy makes paint or leaky white).

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some too, and that's just in chickens. There are plenty of incomplete dominants in other species too.

 

[black_cat]

Actually, incomplete dominants are pretty common. There's blue (black/blue/splash), and frizzle, and pea comb (pure for pea gives a much smaller comb than just one copy of the gene), and V comb (one copy of the gene gives a comb that looks like a Buttercup comb), and short legs (two copies kills the chick), and ear tufts (two copies kills the chick), and Dominant White (one copy makes paint or leaky white).

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some too, and that's just in chickens. There are plenty of incomplete dominants in other species too.

I apologize, I didn't meant to imply that they were uncommon- however, as far as I'm aware, there are more complete dominant or recessive than incomplete dominant genes.

 

[NatJ]

I apologize, I didn't meant to imply that they were uncommon- however, as far as I'm aware, there are more complete dominant or recessive than incomplete dominant genes.

There might be more complete dominants than incomplete ones, but they aren't very rare.

And since we were talking about frizzle, it actually does work as an incomplete dominant (frizzle with one copy, frazzle with two.)

 

[black_cat]

There might be more complete dominants than incomplete ones, but they aren't very rare.

And since we were talking about frizzle, it actually does work as an incomplete dominant (frizzle with one copy, frazzle with two.)

Does that not mean that it’s a regular dominant, because there’s only one copy but it’s still covering the normal weather gene?