the cream gene

[coffeekittie]

you will get gold spangled Phoenix like birds.....cream is recessive.. so you wont be getting any cream on this first cross, select the best birds and mate them together

Excellent. From our previous correspondence, that is what I planned. Good to know I actually understood what you were telling me!

I shall take pictures to record the progress. Off topic, I used to train and show horses, and teach riding/jumping. This is an enjoyable substitute.

 

[nicalandia]

Excellent. From our previous correspondence, that is what I planned. Good to know I actually understood what you were telling me!

I shall take pictures to record the progress. Off topic, I used to train and show horses, and teach riding/jumping. This is an enjoyable substitute.

Quite indeed... I used to breed saltwater fish

 

[cluckadoddledoo]

the Cream gene is recessive, it will only show its cream color only on homzygous form..

gold and silver are sex linked, they are different genes than cream, the Citroen are based on gold and cream both homzygous(hemizygous gold for hens), you can have a cream silver bird, but they will look silver so you wont see the cream

Thanks, that makes sense and is really helpful.

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks, that makes sense and is really helpful.

no problem, I am here to help out

 

[cluckadoddledoo]

no problem, I am here to help out

Think its going to be a very steep and slow learning curve!

 

[nicalandia]

Think its going to be a very steep and slow learning curve!

its ok I will teach you anyway

 

[cluckadoddledoo]

its ok I will teach you anyway

Thanks!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Aubrey, I will be crossing my cream legbar to some phoenix bantams. The legbars are cream light brown. I think we're going to breed the legbar rooster to some silver phoenix pullets which should give light brown crele looking pullets and brassy silver crele cockerels that are all carriers of cream. I have a crele cockerel that is from the same rooster but on brown leghorn hens so I figure if I cross him to the crele 1/2 phoenix pullets, I should get some cream crele birds. From there, I plan to keep the best birds and mate them to light browns and go from there.
I also have some crele colored pullets (1/2 legbar, 1/2 leghorn) that carry crele that I might mate to a phoenix cockerel which would give just plain light brown pullets that will carry cream. In the end, I want to have some cream light brown and cream legbar style phoenix (autosexing crele) but they should all lay blue eggs, and depending on what I select for, some may have tufts/tassel/small crest and rose combs but that can all be bred out later...

sounds good Michael,
glad to see some others are playing around with it too. Got some splits here I'm pretty sure in the brooder. Toni informed me, one I had was a cream she had made. I had always assumed it was a light gold duckwing. Who knew?? Hope this is the one, if so will have lots of splits going already. Working it into crele would be very nice too I think. This male has faint ghost barring to him and it alone really looks good on it. Keep me posted on how you do with it.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

nicalandia,

will try to get some pics up. Havent taken any all just being project birds at this point. Looks like yours are a year ahead of mine though.
will try to get some and post 'em anyway though!!

 

[1muttsfan]

Hello everyone, very interested in this thread as we were sold a trio that were said to be "cream" Hamburgs. After looking at lots of Dutch websites it seems that these are known as Citron, so are you folks saying cream and citron are one and the same?

Some of these birds remind me of my Norwegian Jaerhons