naming order in crosses

[TimG]

Chicken A x Chicken B

Does this mean a male A and female B, the other way around, or is there no convention regarding which comes first?

 

[speckledhen]

Male is A, I believe. I always see the rooster listed first and have always done so myself.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

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Same here.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! That's interesting and something I always meant to ask of 'chicken-breeders'.

I am a daylily hybridizer and the practice is to list the [pod parent (female) X pollen parent (male)] and thus and such from there.

I never thought that it might be different for birds, so I do it just the same (female x male), for the birds.
All my records are written just backwards then, haha. Doesn't surprise... I do many things I do bass ackwards here. If I can understand my breeding records, it's good.

Lisa