Troyergals Chat Thread!!!

[dan26552]

I just looked it up on the wonderful world of the internet and there's like NO info on crests in non-crested breeds.... only all about the whole hole-in-head thing with the actual Crested breed of duck

Nope, there's not.

 

[HeavensHens88]

So what I sorta conjured up:
Somewhere in the long ladder of genes, a mutation occurs in a dominant gene, and that dominant gene is passed on to the duckling by one of its parents, and if the crest mutation is dominant in that duckling, a crest appears?
Don't judge me- it's almost 11 AM, but after haven't getting more than 6 hours of sleep each nights for the past four nights, I feel like I'm dead.....

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Post #8547 - check it out BvB.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Quote: Yeah, I have no clue

 

[dan26552]

So what I sorta conjured up:
Somewhere in the long ladder of genes, a mutation occurs in a dominant gene, and that dominant gene is passed on to the duckling by one of its parents, and if the crest mutation is dominant in that duckling, a crest appears?
Don't judge me- it's almost 11 AM, but after haven't getting more than 6 hours of sleep each nights for the past four nights, I feel like I'm dead.....

Something like that, however here's what I've seen, three out of my four drakes are crested, in my first batch I hatched 18 ducklings and I think maybe 4 showed a crest BUT I have yet to get a Swede with a crest and my Swedish drake is crested so yeah I would think his offspring would have crests but so far nope. (Okey that might change when this next batch hatches)

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Post #8547 - check it out BvB.

I actually read 192 posts! And then I went back to last night and laughed at myself

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Yeah, I have no clue

Heavens didn't want you to see she called someone else the king of ducks. XD

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Quote: Ah
Im just a duke or something

 

[HeavensHens88]

 

Okay, Dan, you're the duck king. (At least, while Bills isn't on..... and I'm probably going to edit this post out as soon as you read it... )

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

LOL


Quoted so bills see this [@=/u/443558/Bills-vs-Beaks]@Bills vs Beaks[/@]

Yeah, I have no clue

*Wipes sweat off brow*
Phew. Bills didn't decide to explode me with a bomb after all.

Oh, wait.
He's in NJ and I'm in PA.
If he bombed me, he'd probably explode himself.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Quote: Yeah, I have no clue

*Wipes sweat off brow*
Phew. Bills didn't decide to explode me with a bomb after all.

Oh, wait.
He's in NJ and I'm in PA.
If he bombed me, he'd probably explode himself.

Hey, when I went to the USS New Jersy, they had a map of how far those big 16 inchers could reach...pretty far into PA, for your information