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RavynFallen said:
You want bama's cockerel? You're welcome to him if you'd like... I don't think I can keep him, need to downsize some more so I can focus on some improvements in other pens...
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That would be very helpful! Buddy isn't hatching until fall. Thanks!

This morning the thermometer inside the coop said 96. That was at 10:00. Humidity at that time was 80%. It's like a steam bath. Everybody that cant go to the woods is gathered around the mister.
 
Here is the link to the study on earlobe color inheritance in poultry.

http://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/13/6/470.full.pdf

Short short summary, crossing white earlobe birds to red earlobe birds "The resulting offspring exhibited all gradations between entirely red and entirely white earlobes. . . . all four grades of earlobe color are found in the F1 generation." A sex link gene may be involved in determining earlobe color in some breeds. ". . .there is evidence for the existence of at least three factors influencing earlobe color."

I thought there was more in there about successive generations. I just skimmed it this time around. I'll go back study the paper when I'm not distracted.
 
cree57i said:
That would be very helpful! Buddy isn't hatching until fall. Thanks! 

This morning the thermometer inside the coop said 96. That was at 10:00. Humidity at that time was 80%. It's like a steam bath. Everybody that cant go to the woods is gathered around the mister.
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No prob! I'd rather he goes to a good home where he can be useful than just selling him off to anyone else... he's turning out to be a good boy too, my Lav Orp taught him respect, lol...

Heat and humidity here is awful too... our water bill is gonna be bad, lol...
 
cjwaldon said:
Here is the link to the study on earlobe color inheritance in poultry.

http://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/13/6/470.full.pdf

Short short summary, crossing white earlobe birds to red earlobe birds "The resulting offspring exhibited all gradations between entirely red and entirely white earlobes. . . . all four grades of earlobe color are found in the F1 generation." A sex link gene may be involved in determining earlobe color in some breeds. ". . .there is evidence for the existence of at least three factors influencing earlobe color."

I thought there was more in there about successive generations. I just skimmed it this time around. I'll go back study the paper when I'm not distracted.
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I will have to study this. Thanks!
 
ChicKat said:
My best Cream Legbar hen - dead today just beside the nest box after she laid her egg.  Heat index 116-degrees.  Now we start the dangerous part of the year for my climate....just can't fight the heat enough....
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Very sorry... our heat index isn't quite that high, but it hit triple digits this week too... I lost a good Lav Am hen same way... :/
 
So to be sure what color the earlobes will be... they have to be 6 m9nths old because it can get change up to that time..Humm mm. Well these guys are only 11 weeks old so I'll keep you posted. Lol
 

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