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Chicken Genetics ARE confusing - very! Let me find the links that started me down the trail to better understanding.. (or corruption if you prefer)
First: a toy: The Chicken Calculator. Once you understand the abbreviations for the genetics you can use this to put in combinations and create mixed chickens, for as many generations down the line that you want - to see what two birds put together will do. The drawback is that if you don't know the genetic codes of what you have (and some will hide) you can't get very accurate results. The other drawback is it can't show all the genetics and how they play off against each other.. but it is a good place to start:
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
Chicken color genetics, simplified and as used by the above calculator:
http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm#basisEN
Ok.. now for full chicken genetics, simplified
http://web.archive.org/web/20051207035940/http://marsa_sellers.tripod.com/geneticspages/page0.html Unfortunately this appears to be only an archive, and not the original site. There is advertising and do not click on the "break free" link because it brings up more advertising..
When you are ready for the more in-depth genetics:
http://chickengenetics.edelras.nl/
Very good overview, touches on most genetics and their relationships to each other. I can see I am going to have to go back and read that one again.. either they updated it or it didn't soak in...
The Sellers website is now at
Poultry Genetics for the Non-professional. Note that it is not up to date, but it
is very good at teaching basic chicken genetics. Kazjap's site (your last link) is kept pretty current.