Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[campingshaws]

Please breed him for pied.
Pretty, pretty please??

With what? Maybe chickat will have some ideas. I have a solid white we pullet, two splash cochins, and Isabella leghorns. I don’t think the leghorns will work because that’s what Katie was already trying.

 

[Kiki]

What is pied?

 

[campingshaws]

What is pied?

White and another color, like this.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Please breed him for pied.
Pretty, pretty please??

What is your info or theory on this rooster producing a pied bird?
I've heard there is no pied gene in chickens. If not how do you see a couple of white feathers in the tail to become the pied gene?
If you just want to work towards something similar I'd look into exchequer leghorns as part of the project.
Imo they have something modifying their mottled genes that other mottled breeds don't have going on.

 

[campingshaws]

What is your info or theory on this rooster producing a pied bird?
I've heard there is no pied gene in chickens. If not how do you see a couple of white feathers in the tail to become the pied gene?
If you just want to work towards something similar I'd look into exchequer leghorns as part of the project.
Imo they have something modifying their mottled genes that other mottled breeds don't have going on.

Any experience with speckled Sussex? I was forever fighting white in the wings and tails when I had them. Wonder if it’s similar? I am not a science brain no matter how much I study it’s like wading through quicksand trying to untangle everything.

 

[Kiki]

White and another color, like this.
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Thanks!!
I had no idea.

 

[campingshaws]

Thanks!!
I had no idea.

If you ever came to visit you would meet my pied guineas.

 

[Kiki]

If you ever came to visit you would meet my pied guineas.

Can you just hurry up and move closer to me??

 

[Kiki]

 

[RiverOtter]

What is your info or theory on this rooster producing a pied bird?
I've heard there is no pied gene in chickens. If not how do you see a couple of white feathers in the tail to become the pied gene?

Spontaneous mutation, like it happened in everything else. That's actually how we get the very first one of everything weird.
And then we breed for more of it
It may be, or it may not be, but there's only one way to find out!

With what? Maybe chickat will have some ideas. I have a solid white we pullet, two splash cochins, and Isabella leghorns. I don’t think the leghorns will work because that’s what Katie was already trying.

I'd start with his daughters.
Actually, if I could track them down, I'd breed his mother to one of his sons, and his father to some daughters to try to see if it started with him or if one of them had the mutation.

If not, I'd breed him to his daughters, then cross the resulting generation with each other, then breed that generation back to him. If it's a mutation that can be reproduced, that's the way to do it