Hello!
So...
I'm reading about Minorcas and found myself with more questions than before.
I found this digitalised book "Minorcas of every comb and color" by George H. Northup.
Although other sources say Hamburgs were used to breed the rose-comb.
In the book it stated he bred RCs not by crossbreeding but through selection.
Is that even possible? If so, could it be the rose-comb Minorcas have a modified single comb rather than a true RC gene? Or maybe different allele than say, Hamburgs? Acquired by spontaneous mutation?
At first he describes the cock that started his rose-comb project as having "two sprigs at the back end of his comb" which to me it sounds awfully close to Carnation comb.
Has anyone here bred RC Minorcas to SC Minorcas? What happens?
SECOND MYSTERY
The white Minorca.
The book states it arose from the black. Which throwed white sports. And it had white beak and shanks.
But recessive white doesn't lighten beak and shanks.
And searching for white Ms I could find outcrossed flocks to black which segregated White black shanked/beak and BARRED. At least here in Europe.
It made sense.
Barred would explain why rec. white birds have light beaks and shanks.
But that would mean a barred breed was used in the creation of white Minorcas.
Which breed it was? I'd love to know.
Interestingly the Deutscher sperber was initially called the Cuckoo Minorca.
And Northup wrote Germans were attempting to breed it. Yet, it seems white birds were already around at the time.
Maybe American W. Minorcas are different than in EU?
Has anyone here bred black to white Minorcas? How it turned out?
So...
I'm reading about Minorcas and found myself with more questions than before.
I found this digitalised book "Minorcas of every comb and color" by George H. Northup.
Although other sources say Hamburgs were used to breed the rose-comb.
In the book it stated he bred RCs not by crossbreeding but through selection.
Is that even possible? If so, could it be the rose-comb Minorcas have a modified single comb rather than a true RC gene? Or maybe different allele than say, Hamburgs? Acquired by spontaneous mutation?
At first he describes the cock that started his rose-comb project as having "two sprigs at the back end of his comb" which to me it sounds awfully close to Carnation comb.
Has anyone here bred RC Minorcas to SC Minorcas? What happens?
SECOND MYSTERY
The white Minorca.
The book states it arose from the black. Which throwed white sports. And it had white beak and shanks.
But recessive white doesn't lighten beak and shanks.
And searching for white Ms I could find outcrossed flocks to black which segregated White black shanked/beak and BARRED. At least here in Europe.
It made sense.
Barred would explain why rec. white birds have light beaks and shanks.
But that would mean a barred breed was used in the creation of white Minorcas.
Which breed it was? I'd love to know.
Interestingly the Deutscher sperber was initially called the Cuckoo Minorca.
And Northup wrote Germans were attempting to breed it. Yet, it seems white birds were already around at the time.
Maybe American W. Minorcas are different than in EU?
Has anyone here bred black to white Minorcas? How it turned out?
