Mixing and Matching Traits...Would this even be possible???

[Rabidity]

i read somewhere about long-tailed sultans, that would give you a bit of a head start right?

Anyone know where you could get one of those????

Thanks!


(also, by adding silkies to the mix would you get their type of feathering??? or more general fluff? lol interesting thoughts)

 

[walkswithdog]

Adding silkies you could get the frizzle, smooths carrying frizzle genes and curly silkie ones, and sometimes straight silkie ones also carrying the gene - and five toes and black skin LOL.

 

[Rabidity]

i want an army of frou frou chickens *gasps in delight*
rofl

 

[Year of the Rooster]

I figured Sonoran would say this but I might as well go ahead.

Silkie Feathering is a recessive trait. When you breed a silkie feathered bird to a normal feathered bird, the offspring are heterozygous for each trait. For example, S = normal/s = silkie. Which would make the offspring Ss. In order to get a Silke feathered Long-tail Sultan or w/e it is, you would need to breed two of these heterozygous birds to have a chance at getting a bird with Silkie feathers. Probabilities: 25% normal feathered, 50% Heterozygous, 25% Silkie. It is not preferred to mate brother to sister. Mother to son or Father to daughter is good. So if you would like to make your chances greater, you could mate the Silkie feathered parent to the heterozygous offspring, giving you a 50% Heterozygous and 50% Silkie feathered.

Hope that made sense.

Also, you would have to find a way to breed OUT the black skin and five toes... unless that is a characteristic you would like. But Sultans also have 5 toes so that may be something you'd like to keep since, really, you are making a different variety of Sultan.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Or you could start with two unrelated breeding pairs and mate those two sets of F1 offspring together.

sultanlongtail1 X silkie1 = F1(1)

sultanlongtail2 X silkie2 = F1 (2)

F1(1) X F1(2) = F2

The more unrelated breeding pairs you start with the larger a genepool you have.

 

[blackclownfish16]

Long tailed silkied birds almost never look good simply because their long tails are either too hard or too soft but thats just my experience and what you keep in your pens is at your discretion

They are definitely different though.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Yes lol I left that part out.

Thank you for mentioning it.

 

[Rabidity]

I found some breeder listings and one said they had long tail sultans and frizzle sultans. So far I've been unable to contact them : (

Would it be possible to breed 2 of these in order to get a long-tailed frizzled sultan at any point???


(and does anyone know any breeders who have these as I can't seem to get a reply from this one and I'm afraid it may be outdated)