Wheaten Crele Orpington Project, Reboot

[NatJ]

Question: How long, or feasible would it be to breed new color mutations? I now this process would take intense inbreeding.

Do you mean to cause a mutation to occur? That's more-or-less random chance, and pretty rare. I don't think inbreeding would help, either.

Or do you mean to breed chickens that express a mutation that already happened? That can be quite fast if it's a dominant mutation, although it takes a while to get them true-breeding for the gene. A recessive gene takes longer before you have very many chickens that show it, but once you have them showing the gene they also breed true.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Do you mean to cause a mutation to occur? That's more-or-less random chance, and pretty rare. I don't think inbreeding would help, either.

Or do you mean to breed chickens that express a mutation that already happened? That can be quite fast if it's a dominant mutation, although it takes a while to get them true-breeding for the gene. A recessive gene takes longer before you have very many chickens that show it, but once you have them showing the gene they also breed true.

To cause a mutation to occur.

I thought inbreeding would cause genetic mutations within color genes too, other then physical mutations with the extremities/limbs?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Still trying to pinpoint exactly what's going on with my Odd chick's coloration.

 

[NatJ]

To cause a mutation to occur.

I thought inbreeding would cause genetic mutations within color genes too, other then physical mutations with the extremities/limbs?

I don't think inbreeding causes mutations at all. It just makes them more likely to get noticed.

Dominant mutations are visible anyway, but recessive ones cannot be seen unless a chicken has two copies-- and a chicken is more likely to get two copies of the gene if both parents were related. (Because each parent could inherit the gene from the same common ancestor.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

I don't think inbreeding causes mutations at all. It just makes them more likely to get noticed.

Dominant mutations are visible anyway, but recessive ones cannot be seen unless a chicken has two copies-- and a chicken is more likely to get two copies of the gene if both parents were related. (Because each parent could inherit the gene from the same common ancestor.)

Oh, okay.

That makes sense.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Another detail of my odd chick, is that she has a Red "Unibrow".

 

[MysteryChicken]

Getting the update pictures today. The forecast says it's gonna rain again, but the rain better wait, until after I get the updates.
Weather can be annoying sometimes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The rain isn't supposed to end until around 6:00pm.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Scattered thunderstorms today. This is getting annoying.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here they are at 7 weeks old.