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Didn't offend me at all. I myself am new to chicken raising thing. After reading your reply i searched on BYC about hybrid chickens and breeding, cross breeding thats enough to make my head spin. Question what would happen if a Tetra tint roo and Tetra tint hen mated from what I gathered you would not end up with a TT chick. Am I correct? Its sorta like you can't take a seed from a hybrid pepper plant and grow it because it won't produce true.
Exactly. To a point. You could breed them together and technically say the babies are tetra tints too, however, the offspring would most likely be very random as far as characteristics, since you would be pulling random genes from all the parent stock... meaning you would have some that are good egg layers, some not as good, some bigger, some smaller, random colors, etc.
That is what makes a breed; a black Ameraucana breeds with another black and the offspring is ALWAYS black.
Hope this is clear enough.
Didn't offend me at all. I myself am new to chicken raising thing. After reading your reply i searched on BYC about hybrid chickens and breeding, cross breeding thats enough to make my head spin. Question what would happen if a Tetra tint roo and Tetra tint hen mated from what I gathered you would not end up with a TT chick. Am I correct? Its sorta like you can't take a seed from a hybrid pepper plant and grow it because it won't produce true.
Exactly. To a point. You could breed them together and technically say the babies are tetra tints too, however, the offspring would most likely be very random as far as characteristics, since you would be pulling random genes from all the parent stock... meaning you would have some that are good egg layers, some not as good, some bigger, some smaller, random colors, etc.
That is what makes a breed; a black Ameraucana breeds with another black and the offspring is ALWAYS black.
Hope this is clear enough.