PBA(Parrot Beak Asil/Aseel) USA, Project(And Discussion Thread)

[NatJ]

Thinking the possibility that this blue egg phenomenon with my Malays maybe a recessive mutation, so a different gene.

You could send a DNA sample from a hen that lays blue eggs to get a test for the blue egg gene https://iqbirdtesting.com/blueegg

If they find the blue egg gene, then she has the usual form.
But if they do not find the gene, and she does lay blue eggs, that should mean she has a different gene.

Edit to add: this would probably be faster and cheaper than raising chicks to check the inheritance (cheaper because of the cost of chicken feed).

 

[Amer]

You could send a DNA sample from a hen that lays blue eggs to get a test for the blue egg gene https://iqbirdtesting.com/blueegg

If they find the blue egg gene, then she has the usual form.
But if they do not find the gene, and she does lay blue eggs, that should mean she has a different gene.

Edit to add: this would probably be faster and cheaper than raising chicks to check the inheritance (cheaper because of the cost of chicken feed).

Yeah, I read up on someone who sent it for the lavender gene and found out LF and bantam lavenders have different alleles or genes or something since the bantams tested positive for lavender but the LF tested negative.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You could send a DNA sample from a hen that lays blue eggs to get a test for the blue egg gene https://iqbirdtesting.com/blueegg

If they find the blue egg gene, then she has the usual form.
But if they do not find the gene, and she does lay blue eggs, that should mean she has a different gene.

Edit to add: this would probably be faster and cheaper than raising chicks to check the inheritance (cheaper because of the cost of chicken feed).

Maybe once I can afford it. Just a theory since parents are brown/cream egging. So would make sense for a recessive trait possibility.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The cockerel I just posted pictures of has the same father as Long, which is Goliath, a different mom(Wheaten). So just waiting for the opportunity to hatch chicks fathered by him next spring hopefully.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Parents of the Long Lookalike.

 

[troyer]

Here he is. View attachment 3995204View attachment 3995205View attachment 3995206View attachment 3995207

He looks strikingly similar to Long!

 

[NatJ]

Maybe once I can afford it. Just a theory since parents are brown/cream egging. So would make sense for a recessive trait possibility.

It's easy to tell whether the mother lays blue eggs, but is there any chance that the father has a blue egg gene you weren't aware of? (Maybe inherited from his father and not yet passed to any other daughters. That would be a good way for it to stay hidden.) Or any chance that a different rooster is the father?

 

[Amer]

It's easy to tell whether the mother lays blue eggs, but is there any chance that the father has a blue egg gene you weren't aware of? (Maybe inherited from his father and not yet passed to any other daughters. That would be a good way for it to stay hidden.) Or any chance that a different rooster is the father?

Yeah if there's one thing chickening has taught me it's that roosters be sneaky sometimes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's easy to tell whether the mother lays blue eggs, but is there any chance that the father has a blue egg gene you weren't aware of? (Maybe inherited from his father and not yet passed to any other daughters. That would be a good way for it to stay hidden.) Or any chance that a different rooster is the father?

Nope, Easter Egger wasn't the father, he's Silver with Autosomal Red, so only his offspring will be Silver with Autosomal Red. Ruled him out along time ago.
This is a Easter Egger/Malay cross from that EE Rooster I had(Got rid of him). Need updated pictures of the only EE/Malay cross cockerel.

The Easter Egger also has a double dose of the beard gene. Son #2. Also need to get updated pictures of him. Mother was a paint hen.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yeah if there's one thing chickening has taught me it's that roosters be sneaky sometimes.

Posted pictures of the babies that were snuck in on me. They were easily identified.