The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[n8ivetxn]

No

Explain? If roosters have ZZ and hens have ZW, I guess I don't understand your objection.
It's the same with humans, but the other way around, men having the xy and not being able to produce a son etc ....

 

[Chicks in VA]

Explain? If roosters have ZZ and hens have ZW, I guess I don't understand your objection.
It's the same with humans, but the other way around, men having the xy and not being able to produce a son etc ....

I meant no , I didnt get new hens. Not no to the other stuff.

 

[n8ivetxn]

I meant no , I didnt get new hens. Not no to the other stuff.

Oh ok lol, my bad

 

[MistRidge]

Ok, if her main body color was yellow, she's a wheaten based bird and she has a patterning gene, but I can't say more than that...

I think after looking at various pictures of "chipmunk chicks" that her light yellow colour was closest to what silver duckwing chicks look like. Her patterns also seem to match up with hens with silver duckwing colouring, minus the base underneath (?). I'm not sure if that's possible or, if it is, what it would look like on the Genetics Calculator. Thoughts?

 

[Pasturedpeeps]

Nicalandia is it possible to build an auto-sexing breed off of the color pattern Red Pyle? Its basically wild type, right?​

 

[Egg Snatcher]

What causes blue earlobes in D’Uccles?

 

[NatJ]

What causes blue earlobes in D’Uccles?

Probably about the same thing that causes them in Silkies: "white" earlobes on a bird with dark skin. The dark skin sort of shows through the white earlobe. I've also seen green earlobes on some Easter Egger mixes (willow/green skin, white earlobe.)

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Probably about the same thing that causes them in Silkies: "white" earlobes on a bird with dark skin. The dark skin sort of shows through the white earlobe. I've also seen green earlobes on some Easter Egger mixes (willow/green skin, white earlobe.)

Will it pass on through generations?

 

[NatJ]

Will it pass on through generations?

If it is just caused by having white earlobes and dark skin, then yes it will be passed on.

I don't think anyone has figured out quite how the genetics of white vs. red earlobes work, but they are definitely inherited in some way (proven by the fact that some breeds have just the one, some have just the other, and mixes can have red or white or some combination.)

The dark skin is known to be caused by a particular gene: a recessive on the Z sex chromosome. Inheritance is the same as any of the other recessives on that chromosome (gold, or not-barred, fast feathering, chocolate.) Light skin is the dominant trait, like silver or barring or slow feathering or not-chocolate.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

If it is just caused by having white earlobes and dark skin, then yes it will be passed on.

I don't think anyone has figured out quite how the genetics of white vs. red earlobes work, but they are definitely inherited in some way (proven by the fact that some breeds have just the one, some have just the other, and mixes can have red or white or some combination.)

The dark skin is known to be caused by a particular gene: a recessive on the Z sex chromosome. Inheritance is the same as any of the other recessives on that chromosome (gold, or not-barred, fast feathering, chocolate.) Light skin is the dominant trait, like silver or barring or slow feathering or not-chocolate.

Ok thanks, he is light skinned