The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yes, volture hocks are dominant

The book you sent me and every resource I've found on them says the opposite. Do you have a different source that says this?

Editing, rereading, I see it does mention that there was a study finding possibly a slight expression in heterozygotes making it possible that the gene is borderline incomplete dominant, but that study came before the ones that determined it was recessive. Is that what you meant?

 

[nicalandia]

The book you sent me and every resource I've found on them says the opposite. Do you have a different source that says this?

Its been reported as recessive thats true, but my experience it appears to be incomplete dominance when crossed with shank feathered breeds

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Its been reported as recessive thats true, but my experience it appears to be incomplete dominance when crossed with shank feathered breeds

Got it, okay. So the heterozygotes just have small tufts as Mystery's pictures show? I'm also reading it's linked with one of the foot feathering genes such that, if I'm understanding correctly, it doesn't express if that particular foot feathering gene isn't present? Or am I misunderstanding that?




Also, directing your attention to this post of mine on the same page if you don't mind, just curious as to your thoughts there and it seems to have been overlooked:

Do you know if faint stripes similar to wildtype e+ striping on a chick that should be E/E (but could possibly be E/E^R as well; she's out of my silkied Cochins who hatched alongside the E^R/E^R cockerel I posted a while back) mean anything? She's got a lot of yellow overall compared to the others so I figured that the stripes were just a coincidence because of that, but was just curious about it.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Got it, okay. So the heterozygotes just have small tufts as Mystery's pictures show?

Bigfoot doesn't have small tufts, neither does the Silkie/D'uccle hen.

He's, Mille Fleur D'uccle/OEGB X Silkie

Baby Bigfoot for better view.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

See, those look like vulture hocks.

...But I was referring to the pictures you posted on page 327, which didn't include him at least that I saw. The Silkie x d'Uccle are what I would call small tufts by comparison, personally.

 

[MysteryChicken]

See, those look like vulture hocks.

...But I was referring to the pictures you posted on page 327, which didn't include him at least that I saw. The Silkie x d'Uccle are what I would call small tufts by comparison, personally.

Her's are the same, she's just more fluffy in the thighs. Just don't have the best picture of her standing side profile to show it.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I don't think it's the thigh fluffiness, hers don't come off her hock very far at all in the pictures you posted with the fluff pushed aside. That younger picture of Bigfoot already had them coming off his hocks quite a bit further than that. That's what vulture hocks are supposed to look like.

 

[nicalandia]

Good to see posts from you again, Nicalandia! Welcome back to the States as well!

Do you know if faint stripes similar to wildtype e+ striping on a chick that should be E/E (but could possibly be E/E^R as well; she's out of my silkied Cochins who hatched alongside the E^R/E^R cockerel I posted a while back) mean anything? She's got a lot of yellow overall compared to the others so I figured that the stripes were just a coincidence because of that, but was just curious about it.

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That is Extended Black. Its a peculiar looks but still within the kown range of expression

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Thank you, that's kind of what I figured!

 

[Fallenone05]

Hello! I hatched some chicks and got these silvery-blue-brown... Looking chicks. One of them has fuzzy cheeks and I have three hens with a beard - a blue wheaten ee, blue laced red ee, and a barred ee.

The other chick doesn't have a beard, but feathered legs and a mauve-ish head

What did I hatch here? Dad is blue with silver barring and I'm not sure who hatched what, but I'm assuming the bearded chick came from the blue wheaten.

Edited to add a picture!

Sorry to double post. A lot got added to the thread and I'd like y'all's opinion! Thank you.