Troyergals Chat Thread!!!

[HeavensHens88]

Okay, Dan:
How does the crested mutation happen in non-crested breeds? Is a specific gene? Or a cluster of genes?

LOL

KENTUCKY.
FRIED.
GIRL.
YOU BETTER EDIT THAT OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

 

[dan26552]

I'm pretty sure it is. And it's dominant; so one parent must be crested for a duckling to have a crest. Size of crest doesn't matter. But I don't know how it started.

Yep. But it doesn't always show, they can have the gene but not express it.

 

[HeavensHens88]

I knoooooooow!! It drives one insane- and goslings take even LONGER!!!

Yes it does.

I wants geeses.

A NEW SUFFIX TO THE WORD GEESE!!!!! WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED THAT THEY HAD OFFICIALLY CHANGED THE PLURAL FORM?!?!

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

KENTUCKY.
FRIED.
GIRL.
YOU BETTER EDIT THAT OUT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

W-H-Y?

 

[HeavensHens88]

I'm pretty sure it is. And it's dominant; so one parent must be crested for a duckling to have a crest. Size of crest doesn't matter. But I don't know how it started.

Yep. But it doesn't always show, they can have the gene but not express it.

Recessive. I love thoss recessive genes- it makes everything a challenge!

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Yep. But it doesn't always show, they can have the gene but not express it.

Sounds right.

 

[micah wotring]

284 unread posts? Shoot...okay, here goes! I think I'll still read them all...

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Recessive. I love thoss recessive genes- it makes everything a challenge!

Well technically I don't believe it's recessive...maybe incompletely dominant?

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

284 unread posts? Shoot...okay, here goes! I think I'll still read them all...

I read over 500 this morning. It was worth it, they were hilarious.

 

[PeepersMama]

OK I'm gonna donate my 2 cents to the whole crested conversation.

From the little I know about it, I think its either a missing gene, or a mutated gene that is a result of inbreeding.

See, I don't know tons