hey i read in a book that a female can't split for lutino, cinnamon, opaline, lacewing or albino.

i recently bred a violet male to a yellow DEC female and got 2 lutino's and a blue baby of some form can't tell yet... does this mean that my violet must be split for lutino because the female can't carry it according to the book or do DEC have seperate rules?

It means that your male bird is carrying the lutino gene. Sex-linked genes can be carried by the male and not be visible because he needs 2 of those genes to express example the lutino, cinnamon, or opaline gene etc... That is why you will find more females because carrying 1 of those genes they automatically express the gene and it is visible. Bird genetic is different in humans females are xx and males are xy but in birds it is opposite males are xx and females are xy.Hope that makes sense

 

DEC is a combo of the recessive pied gene and the clearflight gene neither of these genes are sex-linked.In fact the recessived pied gene is recess and the clearflight gene is a dominant gene. These genes are not carried on the x (sex-linked) gene at all but a different chromosome (allele) completely)

Edited August 6, 200718 yr by Elly

Seconding what Elly stated :dbb1:

Information on pairings of DEC

information on pairings of DEC?

Daz?

he has posted a link to a table listing all the possible outcomes with DEC