White Ameraucanas - dominant white or recessive?

[cackleberrycoop]

Good stuff.

 

[smoothmule]

I think I figured it out on my own too, before I came back to read the posts. So, a dominant white chick is going to be a yellow chicks and be nothing but white, it's all covered up (any other color genes present) and every chick from a dominant white bred to any other color will be white.
Recessive white chicks start out in down the color of whatever color genes they have then they feather out white and can have varying degrees of whiteness. These recessive whites then, bred to a colored hen or rooster will have colored chicks. (unless that colored parent is recessive white) In other words, you can "Only" get a white chick from a recessive white if both parents have the gene and both give a gene to the chick for white.

So, then.....if you have a white hen from 2 recessive white parents, is she still a recessive white or is she a dominant white now? It is beginning to sound like heterozygous vs homozygous which is a little easier for me to understand....but not..

Somebody Help Me ! Lol (really thanks all )


Oh and before I pass out, I was doing some searching on the subject and found an article on the NIH website (National Institutes of Health) and a study found that there was a link with recessive whites and slow initial growth rate....hummm

 

[maldojas]

I think I figured it out on my own too, before I came back to read the posts. So, a dominant white chick is going to be a yellow chicks and be nothing but white, it's all covered up (any other color genes present) and every chick from a dominant white bred to any other color will be white.
Recessive white chicks start out in down the color of whatever color genes they have then they feather out white and can have varying degrees of whiteness. These recessive whites then, bred to a colored hen or rooster will have colored chicks. (unless that colored parent is recessive white) In other words, you can "Only" get a white chick from a recessive white if both parents have the gene and both give a gene to the chick for white.

So, then.....if you have a white hen from 2 recessive white parents, is she still a recessive white or is she a dominant white now? It is beginning to sound like heterozygous vs homozygous which is a little easier for me to understand....but not..

Somebody Help Me ! Lol (really thanks all )


Oh and before I pass out, I was doing some searching on the subject and found an article on the NIH website (National Institutes of Health) and a study found that there was a link with recessive whites and slow initial growth rate....hummm

 

[maldojas]

Can you post a link to that NIH article. It does makes sense with white Araucanas.