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Post by henthymes on Jul 9, 2012 11:58:32 GMT -5
Updated pic of a couple of the bantam cuckoo cockerels growing out. Have three cockerels and two pullets, one of the girls getting close to lay!
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Post by gaboy on Jul 15, 2012 13:06:40 GMT -5
I have cuckoo and blue cuckoo. I will post pics asap. Had back surgery and just now getting good mobility. Also some of you may have received and email last night for me containing a link. I didnt send. my email was hijacked ..Sorry for any problems. Have 2 nice chocolate cockrels I hatched withsome pullets. Already hatched a few chicks from them. Will have F4 Lavender bantams this fall.
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 16, 2012 12:37:08 GMT -5
Any thoughts wanted. Pro and Con. Three month old, Lavender Cuckoo? Sex? Click pic for larger pic. White Rooster with cuckoo gene x Dark Lavender Hen John
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Post by Jon Alden on Jul 19, 2012 12:32:34 GMT -5
Any thoughts wanted. Pro and Con. Three month old, Lavender Cuckoo? Sex? Click pic for larger pic. White Rooster with cuckoo gene x Dark Lavender Hen John Did the white rooster also carry the lavender gene???
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 19, 2012 14:24:27 GMT -5
Any thoughts wanted. Pro and Con. Three month old, Lavender Cuckoo? Sex? Click pic for larger pic. White Rooster with cuckoo gene x Dark Lavender Hen John Did the white rooster also carry the lavender gene??? No not at all....The White Rooster comes from Christina's stock. John
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Post by Jon Alden on Jul 19, 2012 17:05:48 GMT -5
Did the white rooster also carry the lavender gene??? No not at all....The White Rooster comes from Christina's stock. John Interesting
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Post by korfuskluckers on Jul 19, 2012 18:05:11 GMT -5
John, I had a few whites that I did cross to the lavenders. Mistakenly, I must of sold you one. I was trying to clean up the black fretting in the hackles and saddle of the lavenders. Please post more pictures as that bird matures. Should be interesting in how it turns out.
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 20, 2012 8:18:41 GMT -5
John, I had a few whites that I did cross to the lavenders. Mistakenly, I must of sold you one. I was trying to clean up the black fretting in the hackles and saddle of the lavenders. Please post more pictures as that bird matures. Should be interesting in how it turns out. .......Go's to show ya how much I know! ;D... I'm sure I will never ever understand "genes" . It just seemed to me that if you take white and mix it with another color, you would get some of that color in a lighter shade. No matter how or why it happened I like it... What part does barred\cuckoo play in what sex it is? I think I read that only males carry two barred genes? Any one have a clue whether its a cockerel or pullets? Will that hidden Lav gene, be hidden in that white x white?
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Post by harrys on Jul 20, 2012 8:58:05 GMT -5
homegrownacres, If that came out of white birds that looks like a cock bird to me. You should have one of the few lavenders that conform to the SOP's other than color.
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Post by gayle on Jul 20, 2012 13:17:57 GMT -5
John
Your white Orpington was a lavender which is covered with recessive white. Recessive white only white washes a bird, it dose not change the color of the bird. Since you breed the the white covered lavender bird to a lavender you knocked the recessive white off your white orpington (which had a lavender bird underneath). and of course there is a sex linked baring gene involved which put barring on you lavender. All recessive white birds have some other colored bird underneath the white. so next time you see a recessive white bird, you are seeing a colored bird which has been white washed. Most recessive whites have black birds underneath. But there are lines of recessive white with other colors underneath. Now dominate white works totally different it is a diluting gene and alters the color of the bird.
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Post by gayle on Jul 20, 2012 13:23:45 GMT -5
John Your lavender from that breeding is carrying one copy of recessive white and if you breed it back to a recessive white birds you will get whites back and what ever color is hidden under the recessive white bird you mated it to.
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Post by gayle on Jul 20, 2012 13:34:47 GMT -5
John out of curiosity what other colors did you hatch from this cross White Rooster with cuckoo gene x Dark Lavender Hen?
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 20, 2012 15:56:01 GMT -5
John Your white Orpington was a lavender which is covered with recessive white. Recessive white only white washes a bird, it dose not change the color of the bird. Since you breed the the white covered lavender bird to a lavender you knocked the recessive white off your white orpington (which had a lavender bird underneath). and of course there is a sex linked baring gene involved which put barring on you lavender. All recessive white birds have some other colored bird underneath the white. so next time you see a recessive white bird, you are seeing a colored bird which has been white washed. Most recessive whites have black birds underneath. But there are lines of recessive white with other colors underneath. Now dominate white works totally different it is a diluting gene and alters the color of the bird. (1) Does not recessive = hidden? I can see the white so I would think that it is dominate If it is hidden how can I see it. (2) When one looks at a bird that looks white how can one tell if it is recessive or dominate? John
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 20, 2012 16:03:36 GMT -5
John out of curiosity what other colors did you hatch from this cross White Rooster with cuckoo gene x Dark Lavender Hen? the lav cuckoo pictured is the only one from that White Rooster x Dark Lav Hen....I do not have that hen anymore...
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Post by homegroanacers on Jul 20, 2012 16:11:11 GMT -5
John Your white Orpington was a lavender which is covered with recessive white. Recessive white only white washes a bird, it dose not change the color of the bird. Since you breed the the white covered lavender bird to a lavender you knocked the recessive white off your white orpington (which had a lavender bird underneath). and of course there is a sex linked baring gene involved which put barring on you lavender. All recessive white birds have some other colored bird underneath the white. so next time you see a recessive white bird, you are seeing a colored bird which has been white washed. Most recessive whites have black birds underneath. But there are lines of recessive white with other colors underneath. Now dominate white works totally different it is a diluting gene and alters the color of the bird. crossing this white rooster (lav gene and cuckoo gene) with a white hen (I do not know whether she is recessive or dominate) will give me? I see white on them but will they carry either one of those (what I call hidden) genes? John
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