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onagadori · Dec 26, 2013

Boggy Bottom Bantams said:
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onagadori said:
But being homozygous is something that doesn't determine if it is recessive or dominant.

I have to disagree with this just a bit. The recessive or dominate nature of a gene is determined by the point in which its visual effect is seen. So only being seen in a homozygous form would be what is classed as a recessive gene.

Not making any point on any specific gene here or anything. Just saying that is what determines the type of gene

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That's exactly what I was saying.. you can tell in the f1 cross if it is dominant or recessive by whether or not it expresses itself at all! Which means it is the heterozygous form that determines if it is recessive or dominant.. It is not the homozygous form that determines this.. So thus the gt gene is considered a dominant gene.. Even if you call it co-DOMINANT, it is still DOMINANT and not a recessive gene, as you initially called it..

onagadori · Dec 26, 2013

Boggy Bottom Bantams said:
Amanda, you sure about that cuckoo and barred thing?
Those are just 2 different types of barred patterning. One having a fast growth gene and the other a slow growth gene.
Cuckoo being the wider barred as seen in the d'anver breed with a cast growth rate in the feathering causing the blurry look. and barred as seen in rocks and others being a finely patterned version due to the slower feather growth rate. Being het or hom on cuckoo makes no difference its still the wide bars. The difference I have seen in either is the het version is blacker and has solid black feathers in spots where the hom version is paler in tone with no solid colored feathering.

The point I was making is that they are the same gene.. and yes, a hetro looks cuckoo, but there are as you said other factors. slow feathering, fast feathering, Columbian, melanizers, and also some types of blue can inhibit barring and cause it to be limited to sex feathering only.. Barring the way I understand it from other breeders can also be interrupted by the extreme expression of gt gene and in some lines of longtails, the tails will not bar due to the rapid rate of growth. at times. Thus yielding a very incomplete barring pattern.

Boggy Bottom Bantams · Dec 28, 2013

~~Just a little heads up, I will be starting to reserve orders for the coming season for eggs and chicks Next week.

If any of you have been wanting something, nows the time to let me know so that I can get you in the book early, even if you don't want them til summer, I tend to book up pretty quick as many of you know, so let me know so I can reserve some for you. will have just about every color under the sun in phoenix bantams

also have the 2 imported lines of German large fowl Phoenix, and ohiki and Sumatra in both sizes and all colors.

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