Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Fear The Duck Plushies!!!

A bit of genetics funning...don't think I have posted these here yet, but forgive me if I have...having way too much fun to behave and tally things up.

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OK...now that I have scared you have to death...yeh...here we go...AGAIN!

The last ha ha should prepare you for....

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Abomination crossing...welcome to a chicken crossed with a duck, eh. Why...why, because it is probably something you have NEVER done or seen before, so it is NEW to YOU!

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So we are going to do the phenotype (what it looks like) and the genotype (the genetics that make it look like that). So Chicken will be C/C and duck will be D/D...this is all made up, so quit saying how WRONG this is and go with the FLOW, eh.

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So there is the same thing for the genetics ... chicken is C/C and Duck is D/D and you can see the cross we are about to do (NO! ever so WRONG!)...

C/C x D/D = C/D
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Same as above but lookit the progeny or offspring...it is a Chicken headed Duck...deal with it...it is what it is...

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So let us now do the Punnett Square for the against all things right, the cross of the DUCK AND THE CHICKEN (no road involved...).

Parents are as above, a duck and a chicken.

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Move the parent duck (P1) down to one side, leave the parent chicken (P1) at the top. Those are the two phenotypes of what the P1 parents both looked like.

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So I have put two big C's in each square under the chicken parent...put two big D's in each square for the duck parent...and note the little blue (boy) arrow...

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I am now carrying down ONE big "C" from the chicken parent...

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The next blue arrow shows the next C is to be...

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Carried down and now for the pink arrow from the Duck (girl)...

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Now we add the one "D" from the Mom duck....

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And carry the next "D" right across to join the Dad Chicken's "C".

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Now to carry down the Dad Chicken's other "C" to the next spot...

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There's the "C" from Dad Chicken...

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And the next last final "C" from Dad Chicken...

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That is Dad Chicken's genetic contribution done like din din.

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Now for Mom Duck....

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Add her "D"...

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And her final and last "D" to the matrix.

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So there we have it...a Punnett Square matrix with all the four outcomes from the two traits completed.

C/C x D/D = C/D, C/D, C/D, C/D​

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And here we have the phenotype in the center of the matrix...the half chicken and half duck progeny, kid!

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So we have 100% of the progeny as C/D and looking like that widdle chicken/duck!

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Here is a view of both the genetics, the Punnett Square and our little white board showing the cross and outputs



P1 (parents) of Chicken (C/C) x Duck (D/D) = C/C x D/D = C/D which results in F1 (first generation of progeny-kids) = 100% C/D or chicken headed ducks
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So that be that...was that sorta sensible to you's all?

Well OK past there is no such thing as a chicken headed duck bodied breeding.

FEAR THE DUCKS ​

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Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[drumstick diva]

Tara did you have to teach "fruitcup," not to bother your birds, or was she a 'natural' around them?

 

[drumstick diva]

PS I love your bride and groom duckies - now they need a duckling in a baby carriage.

 

[CanuckBock]

Tara did you have to teach "fruitcup," not to bother your birds, or was she a 'natural' around them?

Nope, I would not have trusted her 100% to be safe around little baby birds in her youth. I trust NO dog ever in those aspects completely. Why it always bothers me when some report says DOG attacked CHILD...HUH...how the heck did child and dog get left unsupervised...BAD PARENTS, eh! The dog pays the worst for the crime...and who was there to see said angel child yank devil dog tail or bite the dog or...yeh whatever...the only way a dog has to stop a child is to do things us humans often don't regard as proper behaviour for a dog when the child goes wrongly bad.

Some Australian Cattle Dogs mellow out with age and are trustable, but say with our male HyBlade...he just could never ever help himself and he would crush a baby duckling if left to his own devices--it was just too much for him to handle..."Must bite plushy duck...MUST!" Makins was always nice nice to babies...she would retrieve injured songbirds...bring them to us in her mouth, pick eggs off the floor or find them out and about in hidden yard bird nests...bring us them eggs just as gentle and whole as any Labrador retriever would...place them in our outstretched hand and look at you as if to say, "Scrambled in my dinner tonight please!" But Fixins has always been a bit more edgy, a bit more like the classical ACD type dog. So our male HyBlade was never allowed unsupervised with livestock or birds but he was one heck of a GREAT stock dog...he would charge in there without fear...grip a charging ram by the horn and turn him on the spot. The girl dogs would hesitate but he was keen to BRING IT ON! So I would rather have him by my side doing ram chores than the softer tempered dog gals...he would take anything on out and they knew it. The rams ran to their quarters and durn near saluted him out of respect. He was all biz...no time for nice nice, no time for play...all working dog.

If it was ducks or baby birds, Makins was always trustable. The first five years, Fixins would not attack but I would not ask her to move any birds for fear they would flap wings in her face and she would over do it and grip. You can mess up and grip livestock a bit with scissor grips, but a single bite would maim a bird quite easily. Makins would never grip birds...and Makins was there while Fixins grew into her own. Makins was so kind she let a rescue dog bite her ear and cause it to bleed and never once did Makins stop nose bonking the disrespectful and rude rescue. She was steadfast as a rock to be mild and kind--to a fault. Fixins would have chomped the rescue and made her pay so we know the dogs and their temperaments. None are bad or overly good either...just suited to tasks we know they are made up to do or are ready for.

Like all things, the youthful ones are more edgy, the older we get, the more we mellow with age.

PS I love your bride and groom duckies - now they need a duckling in a baby carriage.

Yes, the silly wudder ducky collections never ever cease...a baby carriage...agh...you should never have whispered that idea in me ear...hee hee...BRAT!

Tara

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

OK...now it is YOUR turns to do the what if's on the silly combinations.

This round we will NOT be any gooder (no such word, eh)...we will only sorta be sticking to the using more proper genetic form. We will use what appears to be two series (alleles are not D and S and not the proper method of one letter in capital and lower case plus superscripts...this is NOT the real correct method but let us not bother our pretty heads with that just yet). Using the KISS (oh blick!) principle...away we shall go to make believe world...

Still NOT going to behave...once again this is an impossibility again, a violation to Nature...but sure drives the concept home because, well, betting you've never seen this before...hee hee hee...WEZ real BAD...

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OK...brace thyself...we are crossing a Duck (naturally, FTD...don't run away, eh) with a soccer ball...of course we already gotta know the I am going to choose that the outcome is a SOCCER DUCK!

So here we go and I am expecting an overwhelming response back from you followers of the Pear-A-Dice genetics groupies...this is YOUR TEST TIME...Testing Testing Testing...your patience, imagination and response times...wah wah wah...

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So the one parent is a DUCK (P1 for parent) and the other parent is a, ahem, SOCCER BALL (P1 for parent) and each has their own letters...P1 Duck is D/D and P1 Soccerball is S/S.

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This then makes the breeding "equation" D/D x S/S = D/S (phenotype is a duck that looks similar to a soccerball<--afraid yet, you need to be...bizarro world scratching to get in).

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As you can see from above, the duck is crossed with the soccerball and results in what looks like a dynamic mutation only soccer parents could embrace...the creation of Franken SOCCER DUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So YEH, I am giving you the outcome of the breeding but...big BUTT here...YOU are going to be doing the punnet square and reporting on the ratio of that difficult undertaking.

So phenotype is DUCK x SOCCER = DUCKSOCCER duck....

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So thar is the Punnett square...the duck parent crossed with the soccerball parent...

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Even give you the next step...now you fill it in and report back your findings...genetically speaking...on how you filled in the Punnett Square and the outcomes.

Tanks, looking forward to, oh about ten or so responses from different viewers here...YEH and no saying your Duck ate yer homework, I ain't buying into that line, was my own at one time too...get moving on this...

WAITING, WAITING, so we can get on with this and do the next one, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[scottcaddy]

So thar is the Punnett square...the duck parent crossed with the soccerball parent...

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Even give you the next step...now you fill it in and report back your findings...genetically speaking...on how you filled in the Punnett Square and the outcomes.

Tanks, looking forward to, oh about ten or so responses from different viewers here...YEH and no saying your Duck ate yer homework, I ain't buying into that line, was my own at one time too...get moving on this...

WAITING, WAITING, so we can get on with this and do the next one, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

Hi Tara,
Sorry it took so long but, I had to learn how to edit your pic. and then get it uploaded.


Scott

 

[hennible]

Tara? Homework!? Lol
Scott gave us the answers....

 

[CanuckBock]

Hi Tara,
Sorry it took so long but, I had to learn how to edit your pic. and then get it uploaded.


Scott

Yes, absolute perfection...I guess I don't require TEN responses...to find MY next victim...

Tara? Homework!? Lol
Scott gave us the answers....

OK, cheater that looks on someone else's page and says, "DAT'S ME ANSWER!"

HENNY has to ANSWER dis one...all on her own!!!

You get the next question Hennible...and she's tougher because we have not gone over this one here yet...heh heh heh. Smarty pants (totally expecting YOU have been reading the links I bin posting and you already GOT this one...best I underestimate the powers of the mod and get strung up eh! I need a nice rest, a nap hanging upside down from a tree)...

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OK...whatz happening here Henny? Why is this one now P1 duck crossed with P1 soccerball equalling a F1 DUCK?

Heh heh heh...

What has changed about the genetics in the soccer ball now? No worries, I will go over this step by step as I already got a file done up of picys of the process...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[hennible]

The soccer ball must have recessive duck traits...
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Please don't hit me with the yardstick again teach...

 

[hennible]

Or
Is the soccer balls holding recessive traits and the duck is holding all the dominant traits?