Share-your-breeding-projects thread

[Chikyboy]

Does anybody know how they make fibro OE's?

 

[The-White-Elephant]

Does anybody know how they make fibro OE's?

@nicalandia @NatJ are good with this

 

[Chikyboy]

@nicalandia @NatJ are good with this

I tagged @nicalandia but forgot to do so with @NatJ! Sorry @NatJ!

 

[NatJ]

What is a fibro chocolate layer?

Fibro would be short for fibromelanosis, which is when chickens have black skin, black meat, black bones, etc.

They can have feathers of any color (Silkies), or just black feathers (Ayam Cemani).

I think there are only two main genes required for a chicken to have/show fibromelanosis, although I have no idea how many modifier genes might be involved too. But with only two main genes, it would be fairly simple to breed a fibromelanistic chicken with any other traits you might want, like specific egg colors. (Note, "fairly simple" would still mean several years of breeding to get all the right traits breeding true. More complex breeding projects might require many more years than that.)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Does anybody know how they make fibro OE's?

You have to lock the fibro trait in to parent lines where one line lays blue and one line lays dark brown

 

[JacinLarkwell]

One of my sexlink I'll be breeding next year will be fibro connected, which means fibro daughters and light sons

 

[Chikyboy]

@Weeg

 

[MysteryChicken]

Wheaten Crele Orpingtons(Discontinued)

Rainbow Runners(Starting next spring)

Silver Shadow breed(Side project)

Rainbow Laying Silkies(Side Project)

Emerald Dragon(Future Project)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Also have a pen of barred Cochin male over assorted cochin females. Will result in normally barred females (black, blue or black carrying lavender) and 1gene barred males (same resulting colors)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Wanted to work on silkied pheonixes and crested pheonixes,but had to cut that flock down and limit males. So it will wait until I move and have more space