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

[ChicKat]

More babies! Yes!

This color app sound very neat. I will be getting it today.

Yay - It will be interesting to hear what you think of it.

 

[ChicKat]

So far today, two browns and a zip... And just when I said that my little OEGB is of no use to my breeding program, it looks like she is going broody!

 

[ChicKat]

No, I can never get enough of chicks:









Although they are sooo crowded in there, I don't have that brooder quite cleaned up from the other 3 (there is a dirty wet brooder picture in my blog) - but the 'electric hen' is heated ever since 6AM so it should be a quick transition.

That one last chick looked like it was about ready to fall out of the remaining two parts of the shell so why not wait until it has hatched?

--Accommodations are beginning to tighten up around here.... However, they are still less crowded than they were in the egg. --- Glad I didn't put those juveniles outdoors last night it got to 33 instead of the 41 that was forecast.

Here is something I particularly love about working with the lavender genetics. You KNOW without doubt that the chick has two lav genes. Maybe more on that later.

 

[hhong3138]

Yeh! More babies! One lavender at least!?

 

[hhong3138]

If you are closer, I could be your hatching partner. Still have some space in the incubator

 

[ChicKat]

Yeh! More babies! One lavender at least!?

yes, only 1 lavender this time -- I think it is a boy because it has that little scowl.

I'll try to gt a picture later. The last one didn't make it -- too much humidity on my part, I think -- so you know what that means? Set more eggs!

If you are closer, I could be your hatching partner. Still have some space in the incubator

Hatching partner ! howdy!

 

[Kiki]

My Welsummers egg color..per the app.
Tuscany/orange
Rusty Nail/orange
Mai Tai/orange.

Same egg three different pics of the same egg.

I'm having fun with the app....it's fun/funny!

 

[ChicKat]

My Welsummers egg color..per the app.
Tuscany/orange
Rusty Nail/orange
Mai Tai/orange.

Same egg three different pics of the same egg.

I'm having fun with the app....it's fun/funny!

Yep, I think that for one thing the light travels in waves -- and depending on which part of the light wave is hitting the camera when I click I get a different reading. They are all pretty close in color though aren't they?? It would be interesting if we took something that we all have access to like cocacola red or some such and took a reading because -- different atmospheres have different light - indoors/outdoors, incadescent, flourescent etc. versus direct sunlight...When I use it, from now on -- I will put up a hex link and say which swatch looks the closest to the color in question...
Oh and the background behind the color influences it too....LOL -- you can get pretty deep into the 'science' of color if you want. And optical illusions - Have you seen the strawberries printed in gray-scale that look red because there is a green tint behind them and one's eyes - compensate?
Here's a link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ooks-red_us_58b5b016e4b060480e0c38ab?7nfjemi&
This one from the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...l-illusions-show-how-color-can-trick-the-eye/

can those two dogs actually be identical? and just the background makes them look different? gaaah

 

[ChicKat]

Here's an article from Feb of 2015 - that does a walk-thru of the chicken calculator. This one is in regards to the Cream Legbar, but to change the way the calculator works, all one would need to do is change the Ig-locus from lower case 'ig' to upper case 'Ig', and change the upper case 'Lav' to two lower case 'lav' in the drop down.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AQeQ0G_C3SZW4DayagYi1lMI0ziZrF_JIKviW_Pp9Dk/edit?usp=sharing

ETA - when we work with genetics we often make the assumption that we KNOW the genetics and that we are beginning with and that we begin with the actual wild type PLUS the genetics that we can visibly identify. What if we aren't starting with pure wild type. For example if the Cream Legbar I own has Mahogany genetics (incomplete dominant) and Melanotic. Then our discussion can get skewed and we can chase the wrong conclusions....

 

[The Moonshiner]

ETA - when we work with genetics we often make the assumption that we KNOW the genetics and that we are beginning with and that we begin with the actual wild type PLUS the genetics that we can visibly identify.    What if we aren't starting with pure wild type.  For example if the Cream Legbar I own has Mahogany genetics (incomplete dominant) and Melanotic.  Then our discussion can get skewed and we can chase the wrong conclusions....

Thats what makes it fun though, right?
Im not new to chicken breeding or their genetics but one thing ive learned is the more i know the more i know i dont know enough.
Sometimes everything goes as planned and its exciting when it all works out like you thought it would.
Other times things dont go exactly as planned and things pop up like you mentioned. Thats exciting too. Trying to figure out the when where and why of it all.
And every now and again something pops up that shouldnt have or in your thoughts couldnt have. A real mystery or mother nature just reminding you how little you may really know. Thats fun too.
The curve balls can be fustrating but i enjoy them. Keeps you learning and thinking. Makes you a better breeder imo and sometimes gives you new ideas, new projects.