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[Trimurtisan]

Good morning ya Quackers!
*nods head* Mernin' Ralphie.

 

[Duck_life]

Question.

I have a buff silkie pullet, White under feathers and minimum black feathers, and a pure white silkie cockerel.

So would I get white and possibly some buffs? I read someone got partridge but I'm not sure.

And morning everyone

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good Morning! Hope everyone has a great day!!~

 

[duluthralphie]

Question.

I have a buff silkie pullet, White under feathers and minimum black feathers, and a pure white silkie cockerel.

So would I get white and possibly some buffs? I read someone got partridge but I'm not sure.

And morning everyone

I don’t think so...

Buff uses an orange base.


but whatever you get would not be subject to dux lice!!

 

[Trimurtisan]

Sorry, I get excited about talking genetics, lol

Pfft, let the nerd flag fly high!

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My genetic experience is with plants, but I never worked with a plant that was mapped out like chickens are. The general concept carries over, its still just breeding, but it was based on 10% science and 90% pheno hunting, aka luck (with hybrids, heirlooms are just reproing seeds). So I understand the concepts (mostly'ish...) of chickens, but I definitely can't hold an educated conversation about it, yet.

So... let me see I'd I've got this right...
Dun, Lavender, and Blue are all dilution genes found on seperate allele, so they are independent of one another and can be expressed together at the same time. Since lacing, a pigment inhibitor, is controlled by other factors, and these dilutions affect the base color they can also be express at the same time

Chocolate is a sex linked color, seperate of Dun, and produces it's brown color differently. That leads be to believe you can have a chocolate colored bird with a Dun expression at the same time. I'm thinking something like a khaki laced chocolate.

The difference between a nice tight bar and a loose cuckoo bar is provided by the feathering speed which is controlled by a gene seperate of the actual barred gene. Is the gene controlling feathering speed also sex linked?

Can you tell visually ther difference between a hetero- or homozygous bared male? Would you just have to breed him and observe the offspring? I understand that a female can only have 1 copy, and that it's only found on the Z chromosome, therefore making it a sex linked gene.

Does that sound right? Thank you for chatting about it too. I like to understand what I'm taking about. I don't mind being wrong in public, I just hate looking stupid in public.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well you lost me back at Let the nerd flag fly high.

 

[Trimurtisan]

 

[Miss Lydia]

And what are you trying to say an not so politely? That I am an old lady I do still have all my teeth to thank you very much!! that is hilarious!

 

[Trimurtisan]

Well you lost me back at Let the nerd flag fly high.

Me too!
It took a half cup of coffe to power the thought put in that post.

 

[Trimurtisan]

And what are you trying to say an not so politely? That I am an old lady I do still have all my teeth to thank you very much!! that is hilarious!

No Miss! That was just bad timming.