The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[ColtHandorf]

How (and like im in kindergarten, I beg of you)? Lavender needs 2 genes to show, and wouldn't the dominant white occupy 1 of those genes, leaving only 1 open for the other color?

Lavender is a dilute of Black. So it should work.

 

[Amer]

How (and like im in kindergarten, I beg of you)? Lavender needs 2 genes to show, and wouldn't the dominant white occupy 1 of those genes, leaving only 1 open for the other color?

No, they are different loci.
In the Dominant white locus, it’s normally black alleles, but you could have dominant white, dun, or, smokey.
You could not have a paint khaki, for example, since khaki requires two dun genes to express, but you could theoretically have a paint dun since the bird one have one white gene and one black gene (unless the white decided to overpower, I guess)

On the Lavender, there are only two possible alleles, black or lavender

Same with blue: black or blue

Here is the cursed
White splashed isabel duckwing herself

Functionally white, probably

 

[WallyG74]

14 hatched! Two pipped internally and then died, I'm not sure why

Because some just die.

 

[sdm111]

Because some just die.

Yep at all ages.

 

[sdm111]

Yep at all ages.

Why if possible always have backup brood stock. You never know what will happen

 

[sdm111]

Last year's pullet first egg

 

[sdm111]

I think i'm just doing 2 hatches for myself this year. Don't know yet what other people will want me to do. Maybe if some roundheads or a family of hatch get here i may keep a couple of the chicks. My breedings will be both kelso one of the original broodpair and a line breeding of son to mom (same hen) I'll let a grey brooding hen set on her non fertile eggs and put the first clutch under the grey and then let her hatch her second clutch. I may do one clutch of the Grey's but the kelso are way more important to me.

Who else would like to enlighten us all to thier breeding plans.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I think i'm just doing 2 hatches for myself this year. Don't know yet what other people will want me to do. Maybe if some roundheads or a family of hatch get here i may keep a couple of the chicks. My breedings will be both kelso one of the original broodpair and a line breeding of son to mom (same hen) I'll let a grey brooding hen set on her non fertile eggs and put the first clutch under the grey and then let her hatch her second clutch. I may do one clutch of the Grey's but the kelso are way more important to me.

Who else would like to enlighten us all to thier breeding plans.

If I ever get thr bird pens finished and seperated, I want to buffer my pheonix numbers a bit with more hens. Other than that, knly whatever the hens manage to hide from me

 

[sdm111]

If I ever get thr bird pens finished and seperated, I want to buffer my pheonix numbers a bit with more hens. Other than that, knly whatever the hens manage to hide from me

Nice, hope it works out for ya

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Something I've been wondering about for a while. Why is it ok to inbreed chickens? Why don't they have the same issues that pop up like when you inbreed mammals?