Understanding Splits and Sex-linkage With Lacing Gene

[ColtHandorf]

I wish I could understand that calculator better. I just have the absolute worst time with it any time I try to use it. lol

 

[Amer]

I wish I could understand that calculator better. I just have the absolute worst time with it any time I try to use it. lol

It does take practice. I used the version that wasn't advanced at first, even though I couldn't plug in all the extra factors.
It helped me to understand the genotypes better, though.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol. Ya I just use it for figuring the odds. It's so much quicker and more accurate then guestimating in my head.
I don't find it hard to use but I can see what I need in my head as easily as setting it and then calculating. Would of probably been sweet back in the day.
I've also found it isn't always exactly correct and doesnt show everything.
I understand its limits though as well as my own. I don't like to learn in that way so much.

 

[AUChickenGal]

I understand that completely. How frustrating to be waiting for something and not get it in over two years. That would drive me nuts...lol

I completely understand your impatience, but this made me laugh out loud. As a horse person, I WISH I could make the kind of genetic progress in two years that a poultry breeder can! I’ve become hooked on my little chicken project in large part due to the “instant gratification” nature of it compared to my horse breeding goals, which will at best result in three generations in the next 15 years...

 

[ColtHandorf]

Well, here's a conundrum...

She is feathering in Silver-laced. He head is still brown down, but the main feathers of the body are definitely coming in silver and not gold. Despite her first set of feathers clearly showing gold. Apparently that is a fairly common occurrence with some Silver-laced Orpington breeders I've spoken to. The flock I purchased a couple of weeks ago throw chicks that are golden but feather in Silver. And I believe @Faraday40 has produced chicks similar to mine. Does that mean people have crossed something else into them and the black is covering it? Is there a way to make the hidden genes show into an adult molt? I'm just so curious as to what the genotype is and to see what it looks like on an adult bird when it isn't hidden.

 

[nicalandia]

the rooster looks too clean of a silver to be split.. How long ago did you get the breeding pair? any chance of a gold laced wyandotte crossing with the hens before you got them?

 

[nicalandia]

Well, here's a conundrum...

She is feathering in Silver-laced. He head is still brown down, but the main feathers of the body are definitely coming in silver and not gold. Despite her first set of feathers clearly showing gold..

Chances are that there is a dilution gene turning what should be gold laced into a Silver/Cream lacing, it would be nice to see pics of the chicks now and as they grow.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I'll do my best to get you some photos of this pullet and I'll do a better job documenting the next one as it matures. It's really wet and muddy thanks to the rain we got all day yesterday, so it may be a day or two before it is dry enough.

 

[nicalandia]

If that pullet is indeed gold and diluted by cream, she may end up looking like citron laced sebrights except for size and type of lacing of course, the richness of the lemon/citron will vary from breed to breed depending on how much red enhanced they are so they may look entirely silver while hatching with as gold partridge.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Hmmm. That's interesting...