if i bred my recessive pied cock with a blue spangle or blue clearwing, would i get any chicks with blue? or would they be spangle or pied or clear or normal greens?

 

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Edited January 24, 200817 yr by KAZ

You would only get blue if your recessive pied cock was split for blue, otherwise all the young would be in the green series.

 

If your recessive pied cock is not split for blue, and you bred it with a blue spangle then you should get

 

50% green spangles & 50% green normals, all being split to recessive pied.

 

If your recessive pied is split blue, and you bred it with a blue spangle, then you should get

 

25% green normals, 25% green spangles, 25% blue spangles, 25% blue normals - all birds will be split to recessive pied

 

If your recessive cock is split to blue and you pair it with a blue clearwing, then you should get

 

50% green normals, 50% blue normals - all are split to recessive pied

 

(as I understand, and I stand to be corrected, the clearwing gene is recessive itself, so if the mother is the clearwing, none of the offspring will be clearwing. However if the father was a clearwing, not the mother, than all cearwings produced would be female)

 

If you recessive pied was not split to blue and you paired it with a blue clearwing, then you would get

 

100% green normals, all split to recessive pied

 

I think that is right. Others are better than me at this.

Haha you did well dmcminn :hap: i would've left it at you'd get no blue chicks unless he's split to blue

Also with the clearwing gene... What you described as a recessive gene dmcminn is infact the rules of a sex-linked it would seem....

If the clearwing gene is recessive like dmcminn said then all chicks will be split to it... unless the recessive pied carries the gene, then and only then will it show in chicks... other than that a second pairing would need to be made to bring it through in the offspring of your first couple...

thankyou for the very helpful advice , i think i'll try to find him a blue spangle girlfriend!

The clearwing gene is recessive not sex-linked so both parents would need to carry the gene to produce off-spring that are clearwing. Also if you bred your recessive pied to another that is split for recessive pied you have chance of recessive pied babies. Just adding that too .

hmm, yes im very fond of pieds, (like your babies, kaz, ive been casting a jealous eye over those sweeties :fear ) maybe i can find him a blue spangle recessive pied!

hmm, yes im very fond of pieds, (like your babies, kaz, ive been casting a jealous eye over those sweeties :fear ) maybe i can find him a blue spangle recessive pied!

I have a nice well bred blue spangle ( sister to big Vinnie ) if you are interested. PM if you need to.