Nice birds everyone.
I have a few questions based on reading stuff...
Pullets take after their father and Stags after the hen.
Line breeding produces smaller birds.
Pea Comb Cock to Straight Comb Hen = most stags Straight Combed, most pullets Pea Comb: Straight Comb Cock to Pea Comb Hen = most stags Pea Comb and most pullets Straight Comb.
Leg color and behavior links? I read a bit on this and I am wondering if it is like ear color and egg color not really linked directly but human created breeding linkage or if there is an actual link?
Have you all found any of this to be true or partially true?
I thought on the math of breeding DNA recombination which is complex with how the chains break and recombine, but in it's most basic form (which will give unreliable results probably) I had this thought:
Roosters are ZZ and Hens ZW so an unrelated or distantly related breeding pair could only pass the Hens W info 100% but the Z info would have possibilities X3 in this new hypothetical line thus genes from Z(1) or Z(2) from the rooster and Z(3) from the hen could be passed, the hen could only pass Z(3) genes to her sons but the rooster could pass the genes of either Z(1) or Z(2) to both his sons and daughters... keep in mind the chains break and recombine not necessarily whole from my understanding of all the bang the head on the wall
reading I have done... but math wise it looks like 50% influence by hen on her sons, and 100% as far as female W to her daughters, but the sire bird also contributes 50% to both stag & pullet chicks.
So it seems to me though in the F1 mating you have 3 sets of male genes to balance out/ sort out and stabilize in the future breedings of progeny... which then gets us into all the breeding schemes.
So I guess what I am asking what breeding systems/theories seem to help stabilize a line or specific genetic factors you wish to preserve in a line?
I know folks develop Hen and Rooster Lines but I do not really understand what people are going for in doing this probably because goals very a bit between breeders.
I hope my questions make sense.
