Posted April 18, 200718 yr You pair a Grey Cock to a Light Green Hen. Out come.... 1 x white bird, 1 x yellow bird, 1 x blue bird & 1 x yellowface blue bird... How can this be?? See how you go giving me all the possible genetic make up of the parents. Hints latter if required.
April 18, 200718 yr Very interesting idea Daz. i have my answer but will wait and see what others think.
April 18, 200718 yr Hmm... This is a TOTAL guess so tell me how i do... Grey cock x light green hen To start off with both split to DEC. As a yellow DEC is from the green series, and the white DEC is from the blue series (read about blue splitting below)... Then both split to blue... About the yellow face, would the hen be golden faced? Or mistaken from a yellow face blue type II thats very green?! (Laughing out loud) Im not familiar at all with greys, hence why im all over the place guessing (Laughing out loud). But isn't grey dominant? Hmmm.... This is confusing! Are these yours birds?!?! Anyways, what part(s) did i get right? Any?!!? Nathan. Edited April 18, 200718 yr by Nathan.
April 19, 200718 yr By white and yellow do you mean pink eyeds or black eyeds? If Pink, then: Grey Cock is split Ino (grey is a blue series bird so can't be carrying the YF) Hen is Green hidding YF (green is dominant YF, bird appears normal. Also if she was goldenface blue lutino chick wouldn't fit) and split blue.
April 19, 200718 yr Author Take White as Albino and Yellow as Lutino.... sorry Nathan I'll let you know soon. ellulah when you say hidding do you mean split or masking? Edited April 19, 200718 yr by Daz
April 19, 200718 yr Then they are split for ino... Since the green hen is split to blue, and the grey is too, thats how they get albino and lutino (white is from the blue series, yellow is from the green)... Nathan. Edited April 19, 200718 yr by Nathan.
April 19, 200718 yr Author This looks to have stumped some people. You should be able to tell me two facts about the Grey and about the Green. These four facts lead to the reason the chicks are as they are. Hint: Why is there no grey chicks?
April 19, 200718 yr the grey cock is a single factor grey and it is split to Ino the light green hen is split to blue and yellowface gene
April 19, 200718 yr Male is Single Factor Grey split Ino Female is Light Green split blue, masking Single Factor yellowface Is that right? Also, technically an Albino chick could be grey based so you may have greys - just masked.
April 19, 200718 yr Author okay ellulah just got it. The grey is a single factor grey. Now a grey bird is a grey factor acting on a blue series bird. Grey is dominant andis the only colour that will mix with green. this produces a grey green bird. He is also split ino to give the albino and the lutino. An Albino is a blue lutino so the ino gene acts with his blue gene to give the Albino. With out the blue gene the out come is the lutino. Now the green is dominant over blue so a grey to green will give grey, green or grey green so there must be two blue genes to produce the blue chick. There fore the hen is split to blue to give the second blue gene. okay last is the yellowface. Yellow face is a dominant and there fore can not be split. It must be shown. A green carrying a yellowface gene will always mask it as she has a yellowface to start with. Answer. The Grey Cock is 1. single factor and 2. split to ino. The Green Hen is 1. Split to blue and 2. is masking Yellow face. Next question: What are the chicks? Edited April 19, 200718 yr by Daz
April 20, 200718 yr The white and yellow chicks would be hens, the other colours could be either as they are not sex-linked genes.
April 20, 200718 yr I have no idea about this topic what so ever, so My answers are THe chicks are fostered ( YOu never know ) and the chicks would all be male.. huh???? I haven't the clue But Daz I tell you what, there is no way I could remember any of those splits, and genes.... Good luck guys with the answers Edited April 20, 200718 yr by Daz
April 20, 200718 yr Author okay the Albino and Lutino are hens. The Blue and yellowface if cocks are probibly split to ino If they are hens they are normals. In show breeding we would pair the grey to an ino to produce inos any splits would be culled. Is the blue and yellowface are cocks and of normal features they would be culled. It's not good to work a second generation split.
April 20, 200718 yr It's not good to work a second generation split Hey, Kaz and I learnt that at our MBC meeting this week! Feathers
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