Some bobwhite coloring ideas!!!

[313759]

I'm pretty stupid and don't know much about the generations, pretty ironic. But what do the F1 stuffs mean? Lol I sound so dumb

 

[shortgrass]

No, not at all; its how ya learn! no such thing as a stupid question

Well ok, I'll try to make it short and sweet... Say you have a white flower and a pink flower, the white being a recessive trait, like blue eyes...(BOTH parents have to carry a blue eye gene and the child has to receive DNA from BITH parents with that trait in order to have blue eyes)...ok so you breed thevpink and white flower, and your F1 generation would have say, 1 white and 3 pink babies...that's F1.. Then you take and breed one from THAT group, say the white one, and breed it back to the white again.. And you will have an F2 generation. The F2 generation will have a bigger mix of colors, you'll start getting more whit "flowers" because the recessive traits are being bred into them... Etc etc.. It takes a few generations of breeding to get a pattern... Did that help?

I should have just used blue eyes as the example... Lol

 

[dc3085]

F1 usually is just referring to the first generation after an outcross. P1 usually refers to your control group.

 

[shortgrass]

F1 usually is just referring to the first generation after an outcross. P1 usually refers to your control group. 

P=parental cross
F=filial
S=sibling

I was attempting to keep it simple lol

Oh..yeah Filial, meaning not related..


Edit: oh yeah, good catch... I forgot about when you breed back to an original parent, like taking the F1 white flower and breeding back to the parent white flower, its actually the P1 generation.... Most of my experience is in botany, mammals freak me out; all that DNA lol

 

[dc3085]

Ive been working at it for a good long while and still only know enough to realize how much i dont know.

 

[313759]

P=parental cross
F=filial
S=sibling

I was attempting to keep it simple lol

Oh..yeah Filial, meaning not related..


Edit: oh yeah, good catch... I forgot about when you breed back to an original parent, like taking the F1 white flower and breeding back to the parent white flower, its actually the P1 generation.... Most of my experience is in botany, mammals freak me out; all that DNA lol

Oh Ok thanks

I think about the third generation I will have to mix one of the chicks with another white or something. I dunno, I haven't planned it out.

 

[313759]

All of my bobwhites and the 2 gambles I literally got 3 days ago were killed by a raccoon. I'm not afraid to admit that I cried I just dont want it to be the main subject in a conversation

 

[313759]

Well since I lost all my quail to that raccoon that I named George Coony lol. I am ordering 25+ jumbo Wisconsin bobwhite eggs.

 

[shortgrass]

That so so sucks ...

But hey, you got over it well... George Cooney, that's a good one

So I know NOTHING about Cotournix.. Im interested to see what you'll be doing with them

 

[313759]

I hear that coturnix are easier to raise than bobwhites but I started with the harder breed. Coturnix are more hardy, and are less aggressive