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I understand, just take it as it is, Oriental type gamefowl..
you know why a bird with that dark color and lavender is almost impossible to obtain? takes too long to get lavender to express because its recessive, and alot of what makes that bird so dark is also recessive, so how one go about doing it?
how to get lavender back?
Show Quality RIR x Lavender bird
the easiest way is to breed back the F1 to lavender parent but that will affect some of the recessive genes that darken pheomelanin, then take the BC1 and breed them back to Show quality RIR, the offprings of this mating will not express lavender and will have about the same pheomelanin shade of the first F1s, at this stage you can do a BC2 x BC1 or even to F1... you See? how all of this is extremely time consuming.! and we are not even close to being as dark as the Dark Red parent..
how can we go about making this easy? well we can try and identify lavender splits, that way we can ALWAYS breed back to the Dark Red parent and once we get to that Dark Pheomelanin shade, we can breed hetero lavender roo to hetero lavender hen and see the magic...
I believe I have a way to identify lavender splits but I am waiting on a response from a friend of mine that work with this genes...
I understand, just take it as it is, Oriental type gamefowl..
you know why a bird with that dark color and lavender is almost impossible to obtain? takes too long to get lavender to express because its recessive, and alot of what makes that bird so dark is also recessive, so how one go about doing it?
how to get lavender back?
Show Quality RIR x Lavender bird
the easiest way is to breed back the F1 to lavender parent but that will affect some of the recessive genes that darken pheomelanin, then take the BC1 and breed them back to Show quality RIR, the offprings of this mating will not express lavender and will have about the same pheomelanin shade of the first F1s, at this stage you can do a BC2 x BC1 or even to F1... you See? how all of this is extremely time consuming.! and we are not even close to being as dark as the Dark Red parent..
how can we go about making this easy? well we can try and identify lavender splits, that way we can ALWAYS breed back to the Dark Red parent and once we get to that Dark Pheomelanin shade, we can breed hetero lavender roo to hetero lavender hen and see the magic...
I believe I have a way to identify lavender splits but I am waiting on a response from a friend of mine that work with this genes...
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