Just the same as you or anything on the planet....Only one father....
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Yes I know, I was just wondering seen as though sometimes litters of pups can have two fathers. It's cleared up now. Thank you for your input
Nope....Still one father...Yes I know, I was just wondering seen as though sometimes litters of pups can have two fathers. It's cleared up now. Thank you for your input
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I know that too. I'm really not as stupid as I sound, I tend to word my questions and sentences wrong.
Each whelp has one father just as each egg does..Multiple male dogs can impregnate a female and have a mixed litter...Only one Dad per pup though...
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Yep I know that. Been to too many RSPCA meet ups, haha. Was just confused as the chick didn't look as expected but never realised it could've just been the bluebells genetics, as she's a hybrid. All cleared up, thanks.
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Can't remember who said it in beginning of this thread but do remember I "liked it".
The Bluebell is in itself a hybrid. Throwing two different parent genes to offspring. The vast difference in your chicks are not due to the sire rather the fact your dam is a hybrid chicken. Not even sure what makes a Bluebell as it's a British thing....blue Marans with ?. It's that "?" and Marans heritage showing up in your chicks. The second chick has white legs- Marans showing through.
You'll get a lot of variance no matter what you breed, even in the same variety and breed. Where these variences really take off and show an arrange of size, shape, color is when crossing two lines of same breed. Take that to tow varieties of same breed then take it even more to two different breed then take that variance all the way to one of those parents was a hybrid of two breeds. This is how far off one chick can be to another. Look like they are not even related though they have the same father AND mother.
Can't remember who said it in beginning of this thread but do remember I "liked it".
The Bluebell is in itself a hybrid. Throwing two different parent genes to offspring. The vast difference in your chicks are not due to the sire rather the fact your dam is a hybrid chicken. Not even sure what makes a Bluebell as it's a British thing....blue Marans with ?. It's that "?" and Marans heritage showing up in your chicks. The second chick has white legs- Marans showing through.
You'll get a lot of variance no matter what you breed, even in the same variety and breed. Where these variences really take off and show an arrange of size, shape, color is when crossing two lines of same breed. Take that to tow varieties of same breed then take it even more to two different breed then take that variance all the way to one of those parents was a hybrid of two breeds. This is how far off one chick can be to another. Look like they are not even related though they have the same father AND mother.
I learned this when my black "Great Dane" puppy started growing whiskers! He is the only one in the litter with an Irish Wolfhound father. LOL...Yes I know, I was just wondering seen as though sometimes litters of pups can have two fathers. It's cleared up now. Thank you for your input
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