Pink Eyed Dilute

[SouthPhillyJim]

Does anyone have these? Has anyone seen one in person? I have only seen a couple references to them.

Thanks

 

[NeilV]

Are you guys snowed in and making up chicken breeds for entertainment?

(I've got a mutt dog that I tell people is a Ozark Mountain Squirrel Hound)

And, yes, I'm snowed in.

 

[RioLindoAz]

Some type of mutant gene that turns a bird's eyes red and dilutes black to a Dun-like color.

Here's what I found. It sounds like the gene's pretty rare... do you have any of these birds?
http://www.stalderexotics.com/chicken_genetics.htm
http://wotan.cse.sc.edu/perobase/genetics/pinkeyed.htm


Try doing a search using the forum. It may be that this topic has been brought up before.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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It's an uncommon allele of silver. NOT "made-up." You can find references to it in poultry genetics literature.

 

[RioLindoAz]

Uhhh... I don't believe I said the gene was "made up"...?

 

[NeilV]

Dang, I was hoping it was made up. Could I interest anybody in the last of the Ozark Mountain Squirrel Hounds? (Looks like a smallish Bernese Mountain Dog)

 

[SouthPhillyJim]

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Would you expound on it being an allele of silver? Does that mean a bird could be gold, silver or PED? Thus making it also sex linked? I have emailed the man who has a website about them a couple times with no response.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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[Sonoran Silkies]

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Would you expound on it being an allele of silver? Does that mean a bird could be gold, silver or PED? Thus making it also sex linked? I have emailed the man who has a website about them a couple times with no response.

Oops, I stand corrected. It is pk; I was confusing it with S^al-s.

There are four s-alleles: S, S^al-s, s+ & s^al
http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations3.html

http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi...=frameset;view=image;seq=202;page=root;size=s discusses pk

http://books.google.com/books?id=VM...age&q="Sex-linked Imperfect Albinism"&f=false discusses s^al

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1886840 discusses S^al-s