Questions about breeding hard/soft feathering

[KarenLL]

How difficult is it to work with hard feathering? Can it be easily bred out?

I'm considering using the speckled Cornish in a breeding project, but ultimately don't want hard feathering. This breed and color pattern have some of the traits that I could potentially use though.

Thanks
KarenLL

 

[3riverschick]

Watching this thread.

 

[Amer]

Do you have jubilee Cornish right now? They are hard to find, and I'm just curious.

 

[gojira]

Do you have jubilee Cornish right now? They are hard to find, and I'm just curious.

The poster asked about Speckled Cornish, so what does that have to do with Jubilee Cornish? I don't know what the poster means by Speckled Cornish, as I have never heard that term.

For the original poster, what are you wanting to cross, what are you wanting to accomplish, and what traits do you want to use from a Speckled Cornish?

 

[3riverschick]

In England, Jubilee and Speckled are kind the same thing.
Best,
Karen

 

[gojira]

In England, Jubilee and Speckled are kind the same thing.
Best,
Karen

Have you seen a Jubilee Cornish? There is nothing speckled about it, no matter which country you are from. You know what the term Jubilee refers to, right?

 

[The Moonshiner]

How difficult is it to work with hard feathering? Can it be easily bred out?
Thanks
KarenLL

That depends on your definition of difficult and easily.
Hard feathering is autosomal incomplete dominant. Your first cross will get one hard feather gene and one soft feather gene.
If you breed those F1s together you'll get about 25% soft feathered offspring.
If you breed your F1s back to a soft feather parent you'll get about 50% soft feathered offspring.
Whether it has two genes for hard feather, two for soft feather or one of each they shouldn't be hard to tell apart so that makes things easier then dealing with hidden recessive genes.
I wouldn't consider it to difficult to breed out just gonna take a fair amount of throw away chicks but that's how projects usually go.

 

[3riverschick]

Have you seen a Jubilee Cornish? There is nothing speckled about it, no matter which country you are from. You know what the term Jubilee refers to, right?

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Hi Gojira,
In the Sussex and orpington world , Jubilee refers to a Speckled Sussex type plumage even if different genes are involved. The look is very similar. in older era, folk in England would cheat and show Jubilee Orpingtons are Speckled Sussex.
No, I have never seen a Jubilee Cornish.
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Ok Gojira,
Took a look around the Net and it seems like a Jubilee Cornish looks like a white bird with partial White Laced Red parts . have I got that right?
Karen

 

[gojira]

Jubilee Cornish are supposed to be Dark Cornish with dominant white. As I said, nothing speckled about it. So why would they consider that the same as speckled in England? I am aware of Speckled Sussex and Jubilee Orpingtons, but what do they have to do with this?