Willow Yellow legs?

[SunnyCalifornia]

Does Willow to yellow produce yellow?
I have a cutie Serama with willow legs, and a nice roo with yellow legs, the standard is yellow. I don't want to breed them if the offspring all be non standard. I'm pretty sure both of the hens parents had yellow legs... but not 100% sure.

 

[Pyncheon guy]

really check the leg color....most have white or blue legs.....they have to have willow legs and they need red earlobes. They are a very nice breed....You'll like them.

 

[Pyncheon guy]

Yellow legged male crossed to a willow legged female should only produce yellow legs unless the male carries willow/slateblue leg color....females can not carry the blue/willow if they have yellow legs...only the yellow legged males can carry the darker color. If the reverse was done....willow legged male crossed to a yellow legged female....can produce willow legged females and yellow legged males.

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Wow, thanks!

 

[tadkerson]

The gene that causes birds with yellow skin to have willow legs is sex linked. The name of the gene is dermal melanin and the gene is recessive. This allele adds black pigments to the layer of tissue under the top layer of the skin. The yellow in the top layer and the black pigment in the lower layer produce the willow color. The incompletely dominant allele to dermal melanin is dermal melanin inhibitor. Males need two of the dermal melanin alleles to have willow legs and females only can have one dermal melanin allele and have willow legs. There are other genes that can effect the dermal melanin allele and cause the legs to be a brighter willow-yellow color or a darker green color.

Birds that carry the wheaten gene can have the brighter willow-yellow leg color. There are other genes that can effect the leg color also like mottling and the barring gene- they inhibit the action of the dermal melanin gene.

Males can carry a dermal melanin inhibitor allele and a dermal melanin allele and have yellow legs. The male will give a dermal melanin inhibitor allele or a dermal melanin allele to his daughters. He can not give both alleles to a daughter- he can only one give one of the alleles to a daughter. He will father females that have willow legs and females that will have yellow legs. The mother does not effect the willow color in the daughters if she has yellow skin only the father effects the willow color.



Tim

 

[Pyncheon guy]

Thanks Tim.... That explanation helps us all. Not many breeds/varieties..... in the two standards require willow colored legs.