The Moonshiner's Leghorn Thread Peanut Gallery

[troyer]

Nope. The Whites all came from my original 4.

I have one that may be another of his sisters, but I'll have to wait and make sure they make it to feathering before getting my hopes up

Maybe you have a color mutation of some sort.

 

[troyer]

Nope. The Whites all came from my original 4.

I have one that may be another of his sisters, but I'll have to wait and make sure they make it to feathering before getting my hopes up.

What if there was lavender in the mix?......There I go....potentially getting your hopes up.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What if there was lavender in the mix?......There I go....potentially getting your hopes up.

Probably not. The group they came from had golds, silvers and maybe BBR pheonixes. Those came from some showline like a decade ago and the four came to my place about 4 or 5 years ago.

The male's tail does seem lavender though some days, and whiter other days

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Maybe you have a color mutation of some sort.

That's what I keep going back to. I'll be the first to admit that these birds probably are in closer relations than most would appreciate, so I'm sure funky is an accurate description of their genes at this point. Last batch with white chicks laid (mostly) by the white hen had roughly 1/3 of the litter white and the rest were normal looking.

 

[Amer]

Awww man I was so fascinated by your discourse and I couldn’t even reply.

 

[RiverOtter]

For anyone curious about Japanese Thoroughbreds, they are actively trying to breed really good white TBs there. This is the filly currently racing;
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/sports/horse-racing/rare-white-thoroughbred.html

And to see how fantastic a minimally expressed dominant white spotting gene can look, scroll down the page and take a peek at her mother. There's a link in the article to another article about her, but here it is as well.
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2016/01/08/new-spotted-wonder-white-thoroughbred-wins-japan/

I have a good friend that works with TBs and she and my daughter are plotting to save enough to import semen from one of the Japanese-bred white TBs, since that seems to be the only place that really wants to get the color into the best racing lines.

In the US, Megson Farms snaps up most dominant white TBs.

 

[Amer]

For anyone curious about Japanese Thoroughbreds, they are actively trying to breed really good white TBs there. This is the filly currently racing;
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/sports/horse-racing/rare-white-thoroughbred.html

And to see how fantastic a minimally expressed dominant white spotting gene can look, scroll down the page and take a peek at her mother. There's a link in the article to another article about her, but here it is as well.
https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2016/01/08/new-spotted-wonder-white-thoroughbred-wins-japan/

I have a good friend that works with TBs and she and my daughter are plotting to save enough to import semen from one of the Japanese-bred white TBs, since that seems to be the only place that really wants to get the color into the best racing lines.

In the US, Megson Farms snaps up most dominant white TBs.

Wow, they are just gorgeous! I really love the sleek thoroughbred build. Most here are just black or bay, kinda boring after a while.

Shiloh (the cat in my profile) is the son of a white cat, but I don’t know if she is dominant white or is homozygous and highly expressive of the spotting gene. She had a black spot on her head. I think she’s dominant white since most of her relatives are white, but her father and some relatives are solid black.
Her mate was an unrelated black and white cat and she produced two litters with four kittens each, three being solid white and one being seal point and white in each litter. It’s some kind of luck that that happened twice, considering that neither Snowbelle nor her mate are pointed, yet carried the gene and the only kittens born not solid white (with spots on their heads) happened to be pointed. Most had black spots on their heads but I think there was one with a brownish spot.
So Shiloh is a very special gift from God, and so is his little sister Mia.

 

[Amer]

Me who actually has seen a borderline pied chicken, possibly another mottling mutation in Indonesian gamefowl.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how to acquire pictures of these. I saw them on a Facebook genetics group but I don’t know if they have a particular name.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yall lost me as soon as you mentioned the word horse, so....

 

[Amer]

Yall lost me as soon as you mentioned the word horse, so....

Yeah, we were talking about cats, right?