The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[NatJ]

I have 2 EE in my flock, one Rooster, one hen...I was told they are Blue Amerucauna Rooster with Isabel Amerucauna Hens. They both hatched from blue eggs. My hen just started laying and she lays lovely little blue eggs.

...will they have blue eggs if they are from the birds they say they are from?

Yes, their daughters should lay blue eggs.

All of my other girls lay brown eggs, if they bread with my rooster will they have a mix of eggs?

With the current rooster, if you hatch the brown eggs from your current hens, their daughters will most likely lay green eggs. (Assuming you were told correctly about your rooster: if both of his parents are Ameraucanas, he SHOULD be pure for the blue egg gene, so all his chicks will inherit it.)

Blue eggs with a brown coating on the outside look green, which is why the daughters of the brown-egg hens will lay green eggs, rather than actual blue ones.

Will all of his offspring have a beard, is that dominant?

Beard is dominant.

That means you cannot tell by looking at your rooster whether he has two copies of the beard gene (so all of his offspring will inherit it) or only one copy of the beard gene (half his offspring will inherit the beard, and the other half will not.)

If both of his parents really are Ameraucanas, and have the genes Ameraucanas are supposed to have, then your rooster will produce only bearded chicks (he has two copies of the beard gene, every chick gets one copy of the gene, because it is dominant you see a beard on every chick, no matter whether their mothers were bearded or not.)

 

[NatJ]

So not really. Good! Maybe I can get rid of my BB red OEGB now!
What is the crele recipe?

Genetically, crele is BBR plus the barring gene.

If you want to start with BBR and Barred and make Crele, cross the two, then breed one of the barred chicks back to BBR. You should get some Creles in that second generation.

 

[MysteryChicken]

So not really. Good! Maybe I can get rid of my BB red OEGB now!
What is the crele recipe?

Barred Rooster X BB Red Hen = 100% Single Barred black offspring

F1 X F1 = 6.25% Crele(M/F), (F)Duckwings, 18.25% Black(F), & 18.5% Barred(M)

F2 crele X F2 Crele = 25% Crele(M/F), 25% Duckwing(F)

F3 X F3 = 50% Crele(M/F)

 

[MysteryChicken]

So not really. Good! Maybe I can get rid of my BB red OEGB now!
What is the crele recipe?

You can do it reversed order too like NatJ said.

 

[NatJ]

Barred Rooster X BB Red Hen = 100% Single Barred black offspring

F1 X F1 = 6.25% Crele(M/F), (F)Duckwings, 18.25% Black(F), & 18.5% Barred(M)

F2 crele X F2 Crele = 25% Crele(M/F), 25% Duckwing(F)

F3 X F3 = 50% Crele(M/F)

That's not quite the numbers I get.
Edit: oops, did my math wrong. The corrected numbers are:

Yes, Barred Rooster x BBR hen = 100% single-barred black offspring

But F1 x F1 should give these proportions:
3 black females
1 bbr female
3 barred black females
1 crele female

3 barred black males (single barred)
3 barred black males (double barred)
1 crele males (single barred)
1 crele male (double barred)

That's 3 black-based for every bbr-based, and evenly split between barred/not on females or double/single barred on males. The crele females, and double-barred crele males, are each about 6.25% of the total, as @MysteryChicken said.

If you hatch enough chicks, you should be able to select some Crele females, and double-barred Crele males, and those can be bred to produce 100% Crele offspring.

(The BBR and Crele patterns include some black. You might have too much black in some of the them, because of other genes that might be carried by the blacks. Just select in the direction of the right amount, and you should have nice Creles in a few more generations.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

That's not quite the numbers I get.

Yes, Barred Rooster x BBR hen = 100% singe-barred black offspring

But F1 x F1 should give equal amounts of:
black females
bbr females
barred black females
crele females

barred black males (single barred)
barred black males (double barred)
crele males (single barred)
crele males (double barred)

That's about a 1 in 8 chance for each one (12.5%)

If you hatch enough chicks, you should be able to select some Crele females, and double-barred Crele males, and those can be bred to produce 100% Crele offspring.

(The BBR and Crele patterns include some black. You might have too much black in some of the them, because of other genes that might be carried by the blacks. Just select in the direction of the right amount, and you should have nice Creles in a few more generations.)

I was going off the genetics calculator.

 

[NatJ]

I was going off the genetics calculator.

I was doing it manually, but now I see where I went wrong.
The black to bbr should be a 3:1 ratio, not 1:1
I'll go back and fix it.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Updated pictures of the color changing hen.

Previous picture.

 

[NanaK]

Updated pictures of the color changing hen.
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She is a chameleon-bird! Beautiful!

 

[MysteryChicken]

She is a chameleon-bird! Beautiful!

Very much a chameleon.
1yr old in this picture.