Henk69
Crowing
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No offence, my jokes are often missed. I am on the other side of the ocean, not easy to offend me. Except when my calculator is called german...
This stuff is not easy also.
Anything is possible but why would you go to such lengths to create a black line from that blue animal?
Don't get me wrong, I always say "breed blue to blue". Once everything is in there (melanizers) it can be kept in there by selection and you have the most control over every aspect of your blue color.
But if you lack melanizers then use a true black, not a black from a blue crossing, because they are as bad as their blue sibblings melanizerwise.
So when a non black animal (eg a blue) is in the pedigree of your black line the purity of your melanizers can be compromised. That could mean that your chance of succeeding the melanizer injection is reduced by 50%.
There is one flaw in my theory. Melanizers can be lost from black lines also.
That would mean the occasional rusty animal in those lines.
The problem with blue is that that rustiness is covered more (spread of pigment), and melanizer loss goes unnoticed.
So why is there a lack of melanizers in blue lines?
Because the blue is introduced from a non self/solid colored line of chickens is one reason.
The same effect you could get if your "black line" has a blue ancestor in there...
No offence, my jokes are often missed. I am on the other side of the ocean, not easy to offend me. Except when my calculator is called german...
This stuff is not easy also.
Anything is possible but why would you go to such lengths to create a black line from that blue animal?
Don't get me wrong, I always say "breed blue to blue". Once everything is in there (melanizers) it can be kept in there by selection and you have the most control over every aspect of your blue color.
But if you lack melanizers then use a true black, not a black from a blue crossing, because they are as bad as their blue sibblings melanizerwise.
So when a non black animal (eg a blue) is in the pedigree of your black line the purity of your melanizers can be compromised. That could mean that your chance of succeeding the melanizer injection is reduced by 50%.
There is one flaw in my theory. Melanizers can be lost from black lines also.
That would mean the occasional rusty animal in those lines.
The problem with blue is that that rustiness is covered more (spread of pigment), and melanizer loss goes unnoticed.
So why is there a lack of melanizers in blue lines?
Because the blue is introduced from a non self/solid colored line of chickens is one reason.
The same effect you could get if your "black line" has a blue ancestor in there...
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