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[duluthralphie]

White is a recessive color so if both parents aren't white the baby won't be white.

That is not always the case.

If a bird has cc instead of a dominant C it will not be able to express the color, so in this case it could have been a brown, or black parent with 2 recessive c's once mated to whomever had a C allele it then expressed the parents "real" color.

 

[KlopKlop]

That is amazing for a classroom hatch. I can only imagine the conversations that are going on in the homes of those children. 

This whole thing is coordinating through my mom, who is a second grade teacher. She said the kids are loving it but the other adults in the building are almost more curious than the kids!! Too funny

 

[jerryse]

I cant wait to see how the black one from the white egg looks like!





I had two chicks hatch last night. Finally some Black Aussie crosses! One is ¾ Australorp and ¼ Welsummer and the other is ¾ Welsummer and ¼ Australorp. Shpuld have some good layers if they are pullets.


AND here is a question for Jerry. I am hatching eggs fom 2 different Welsummer hens. Both are bred by the same roo but they each produce different colored chicks? One hatches out with chipmunk stripes and the others are black with some white? Why would tye same crossing produce different chicks? Are some genes stronger?

Have to admit I do not have an answer . Really do not know about Welsummers .

 

[KlopKlop]

That is not always the case.

If a bird has cc instead of a dominant C it will not be able to express the color, so in this case it could have been a brown, or black parent with 2 recessive c's once mated to whomever had a C allele it then expressed the parents "real" color.

so what are your thoughts on a Dixie over a leghorn throwing a black chick? or is your money on it being a BA egg that came out white?

 

[holm25]

Have to admit I do not have an answer . Really do not know about Welsummers .

OK I was jw

 

[duluthralphie]

This whole thing is coordinating through my mom, who is a second grade teacher. She said the kids are loving it but the other adults in the building are almost more curious than the kids!! Too funny

I can bet that!

I took those eggs a little over three weeks ago to the Monticello school. The teacher has called me 3-4 times in last few days. She has one hatching today.

Wanted to know if she should "help" it, because it started this morning and has not progressed...... The adults seem to have more questions than the kids.

Not like when I was in school and most the teachers were married to farmers.

 

[jerryse]

so what are your thoughts on a Dixie over a leghorn throwing a black chick? or is your money on it being a BA egg that came out white?

White Leghorn are dominant white . So no Leghorn as the chick would be mostly white .

 

[KlopKlop]

White Leghorn are dominant white . So no Leghorn as the chick would be mostly white .

My leghorns are from the farm store and I assume they are hybrids. Would that make a difference?

Maybe one of my BAs laid a porcelain egg

 

[jerryse]

This hen has 1 copy dominant white . So yes hybrids could make a difference if they have 1 copy dominant white . If they have specs of color then 1 copy .

 

[KlopKlop]

This hen has 1 copy dominant white . So yes hybrids could make a difference if they have 1 copy dominant white . If they have specs of color then 1 copy .

Thanks for the insight. I guess I am leaning towards a light/white BA egg then as my two leghorns are white as fresh snow.