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[Nyla]

If a Male Lavender Muscovy breeds with a Chocolate Muscovy female, what might the possibilities of lavender babies hatching? Is lavender a recessive or dominant gene?

 

[Faraday40]

If a Male Lavender Muscovy breeds with a Chocolate Muscovy female, what might the possibilities of lavender babies hatching? Is lavender a recessive or dominant gene?

I don't think you'd get any lavs from that mating but you could keep a female to breed back to the father. In chickens, the lav gene is recessive. You need 2 lav genes to make lav offspring, otherwise offspring look black but are called "black / lav splits" If 2 splits breed, then 25% of their offspring could be lav - even though both parents look black. Choc gene works differently & is sexlinked. (A choc male x black female = male black chicks & female choc chicks)

 

[Leahs Mom]

I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother's day.

So glad BYC is back up. I had issues logging in but thankfully a password reset did the trick. (For a while I thought I'd have to start all over again as a New Egg and be known as "FormerlyFaraday40")

@pipdzipdnreadytogo Wow! I love your silkied cochins! She's beautiful!

Thanks for the mother's day greetings!

I'm hoping our thread folks find the way back. There's a little bit of learning curve but it's do-able. I also had to reset my pw.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

@pipdzipdnreadytogo Wow! I love your silkied cochins! She's beautiful!

Thanks, they are great. The two pullets I hatched in January have turned into the sweetest little things, although Ro started out pretty sassy!

I don't think you'd get any lavs from that mating but you could keep a female to breed back to the father. In chickens, the lav gene is recessive. You need 2 lav genes to make lav offspring, otherwise offspring look black but are called "black / lav splits" If 2 splits breed, then 25% of their offspring could be lav - even though both parents look black. Choc gene works differently & is sexlinked. (A choc male x black female = male black chicks & female choc chicks)

This is correct. The genes work the same in Muscovies as they do in chickens. Lavender male x Chocolate female should give you all black offspring. Female offspring will be split to lavender, and male offspring will be split to both lavender and chocolate. Here's a link to the genetics calculator for Muscovies if you want to play around with the genes and see what happens: Muscovy Calculator.

 

[Nyla]

What would these be considered?
Zoe-->


Leon-->


Sophie-->





Liz -->


Maggie --> (The one to the left)



Cleo --> (She has some barring)



Jennie --> (French White)

 

[Faraday40]

For those that know us, I just finished putting together DD's dance recital video. (The one for which I made the hairpieces out of chicken feathers. ) She had a rough day yesterday (just normal middle school stuff), so if you want to help me cheer her up, give her a Youtube like.

 

[jonesfamily6]

I wondered why there hadn't been activity in this group! Today I sign in it looks different and there are new messages I missed this.

Lastnight even though I counted a million cazilluon times I came up one short. So I started thinking and realized it's the wheatan maran that Mia. I searched as best I could all around and gave up. Left a barn door open so it could get inside and be on the outside of the coop/pen but still have a little protection. Still no sign of it. No feathers. Nothing. They can free range but stick within 40-50 feet of their coop door (if even that far to be honest). So I have no clue. It's probably 15/16 weeks. Still hopeful for its return.

 

[Finnie]

Aw, I hope it comes back.

 

[Leahs Mom]

For those that know us, I just finished putting together DD's dance recital video.

@Faraday40 I can't "like" on YT but I LOVE it here!

 

[ellymayRans]

Oh my she looks so much bigger!!