What color/colors will I get if I cross.......

[upintheholler]

Hey there! Thank you both for the links for the calculators. I have been plugging in about every color I have just to see what it will do. I really need to understand the underlying colors better, and the dominate and recessive traits. Where would I find a book or site to help me learn those things? The incompletely dominate and recessive things have me confused. I am a quick learner, just need the info.

 

[catwalk]

I thought I posted here last night, but I must have hit the wrong key!

A recessive gene is "trumped" by the dominant gene. It can still be there and be passed on, but it will take a back seat to the dominant gene in the phoenotype.
The confusing part about recessives, to me, is that the dominant gene is often "nothing". Non-mottled is dominant to mottled, for example, and non=lavender is dominant to lavender. So if you have a bird with two ldominant lavender genes (Lav/Lav), it will be non-lavender. It takes a while for that to make complete/any sense.

Incomplete dominance is easier. Maybe. Incompletely dominant genes share the role of expression. Blue (Bl) is incompletely dominant. When one Bl gene is present in a black bird, the black is faded a bit. When there are two Bl genes, it's faded a bit more, and we call it splash. If your chicken is a cup of black coffee, and the Bl gene is a glug of cream, you can see it work together. One glug will lighten your coffee, and two glugs will lighten it farther still. Sorry, this is genetics; you can't have more than two glugs!

Please tell me that, at the very least, I haven't made it more confusing!

 

[becky3086]

It made really good sense to me and I have had to add this thread to my favorites too, lol.

 

[Bantimna]

I have just added it to my favorites too!