what breeds have dominate white?

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I actually just ordered it but that doesn't help me right now while I'm stewing that someone told me the birds I want to use won't give me the colors I want. I think they maybe wrong according to the chicken calculator but then again, maybe that's wrong.
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So what are you wanting?
 
What are you needing the dominate white to do... (are you trying to cover or mask a color?)

Chris
 
I am try to make a buff laced wyandotte using my blue laced red splash rooster (or hens) and some other bird. I was told I needed dominate white (not sure why maybe to get the buff from the red?)
 
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I'm wrong, Dominant White is indicated by I for inhibitor, as in inhibitor of black. It is incompletely dominant so in a heterozygous, Ii, chicken there will be some black spotting or ticking. This dominant white is dominant to black, but not to red.

Dominant white is found in White Leghorns, Pile Games and La Bresse.

Dominant white may be found in breeds that are ordinarily recessive white, such as White Minorcas, White Wyandottes and White Rocks.

All this is from Hutt's Genetics of the Fowl.
 
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I'm wrong, Dominant White is indicated by I for inhibitor, as in inhibitor of black. It is incompletely dominant so in a heterozygous, Ii, chicken there will be some black spotting or ticking. This dominant white is dominant to black, but not to red.

Dominant white is found in White Leghorns, Pile Games and La Bresse.

Dominant white may be found in breeds that are ordinarily recessive white, such as White Minorcas, White Wyandottes and White Rocks.

All this is from Hutt's Genetics of the Fowl.

it must be that they wanted the dom. white to block the black lacing but I think that is covered by splash lacing (maybe??)
I was thinking of using a white wyandotte- hoping it was a silver lace hiding under the white.
 
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not looking for feathered legs, thanks
and actually leghorns are so the opposite of what I'm trying to breed for type- trying to stay with the wyandotte traits.

It would take generations to get back to anything like a Wyandotte using any of these crosses - and I can't think that a pyle game bird would be better. The RI White or an ISA Brown is the closest to Wyandotte type I can find - and they are NOT very close.
 
No gene is dominant to an entirely separate gene. In dominant white the effects of the gene are seen when one copy is present, making it dominant. Dominance relates to the relationship between the alleles of the gene. Dominant white, I is dominant to i+, the lack of a pigment inhibitor.
 
I just want to say I have that new genetics book and it dosent say which whites carry dominant white except that many whites carry both and the blue , barred (cockoo gene) and even black along with silver. These help to create a clean white without color bleeding or flecks in the white.
White wyndottes are I believe recessive whites but that dosent mean they dont have dominant white also. Recessive white will not create a white tail or white lacing. But you can loose it easily if you just keep mating directly in a couple of times and discard all other chicks just breed from one dominant white each time. You just need to find out if they carry dominant white, they may not, many are pure blue splashes with white over the splash. I saw a similar post in the coop.net in the classroom , someone asking the same question and there were quite a few replies as to which breeds and what was under the white for that breed. Save a male each time to cross back to your blue lace and by the 3rd or 4th cross you will be getting some looking pretty close to pure. But you really need to go back in with crosses 7 or 8 times to loose anything unwanted from the other breed, just keep a white tailed roo each time to cross back in. If you cross back to the pure female each time you regain body type much quicker and it will clean them up much quicker also. Since you are just working with transfering a dominant it should be easy and you can do 2 crosses a yr. It may get hard to tell if you have a dominant white or just a splash. But I believe dominant white softens the red color also, dilutes it down one shade. Can make them look gold yellow in some. Even if you used a booted or feather legged bird you would loose the genes for that also as they are recessive for the most part. But you should be able to get a white or a sex linked that would work. Even your rose comb should start to pop back by the 3 or 4th cross back in.
 

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