~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[SunAngel]

I have 1 young pullet with greenish legs and was wondering if I should keep her out of my breeding program because of the leg color. Will she pass this on to all of her offspring?

 

[catwalk]

It is inheritable, but Mr. Mongold says that it is pretty recessive. I haven't gotten a green-legged chick with yellow x green breeding, but I have limited hatching experience. Being recessive, I suppose it could pop up anywhere, but I need to hear from people who have been breeding longer.

 

[Brian]

I, for one, am looking forward to this discussion regarding leg color and genetics.

 

[Chickenaddict]

I too am interested in what to do about green leg colors, I have been getting alot lately and neither of my roos have green legs nor do the hens! One roo has yellow legs with a bit of swarthy and the other has flesh colored legs. One hen has brown legs but she is a jet black bird. My smallest hen who isn't even fertile has blue legs! The rest have either flesh tone or yellow. I have been wondering about this for some time...

 

[catwalk]

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So have you been keeping track of your breeding results? I am thinking of making a database including leg color, mottling, down color, etc. I even break open unhatched eggs to check leg color in the dead chicks! We'll need good records to figure out how to get rid of it. So far, I haven't gotten anything but yellow from yellow x yellow, but this is just from a half dozen specific birds, and I can't make any conclusions from that. Is it a specific pair that make your green legs, or just willy nilly? I suspect that there is a handful of genes that create leg color, and you could not only have a green leg gene, you could also have a blue and a yellow gene that are incompletely dominant, and together they make green!

 

[Chickenaddict]

I have been keeping track. The tiny micro hen was a result of a hen with yellow legs and a roo with flesh tone legs. I haven't a clue as to how I got blue legs out of that. It was a first for me. As for the green legs I believe that comes from my male who has yellow/swarthy and my black hen with dark brown legs. I have 5 batches of babies running around with mostly yellow legs this time around altho 2 babies are chocolate with the darker legs or swarthy so to speak.

 

[abbey2140]

Just had to share pic of the my babies. His colors are going to be amazing I'm thinking!!!

 

[jen5680]

What will they do at a show if your bird has greenish legs?? Is it a dq??

 

[Gordonhillfarm]

Nice pics abbey2140

 

[abbey2140]

For a Serama green legs are a DQ.