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John:
I would be interested in some of the LF cross eggs by March.  Maybe we can do an egg swap for bantam silvers and/or some others.

bantamhill:
Sounds good!

Suz:
I\'m trying to help a 4-Her with the lavender gene.   :stare:

He is interested in joining in on the bantam lavender project.  

With some assistance from John B. and grisaboy, here is a link to the amended version--some terminology and Punnett Squares. http://www.frontiernet.net/~susiewinder/lavender.htm

Any other corrections or suggestions before I give it to him?

Thanks,
Susie Winder

grisaboy:
Hi Suzie,

I looked at your genetics chart and Punnnet squares.
You are on the right track .... but not quite right.
The main thing here is the the E down color gene and the lavendar gene are different genes.  So when doing your Punnet square you have to account for both sets of genes.
In this case the down color gene is the same for the black and lavendar color birds.  

So for the F2 chicks you would have:

25% black (EE, LavLav)  -- Lav, with capital L is non lavendar,
which is Dominant to lavendar.

50% black, carrying one lavender gene (EE, Lavlav)

25% lavender (EE, lavlav) -- lower case lav  denotes recessive.

The Lavendar gene doesn\'t change the EE down color gene, but changes how it is expressed.



Curtis

Suz:
Thanks a bunch Curtis, aka grisaboy!

I think I got it now and I updated the link in my message above.  Boy, that took a lot of work for my little brain.  I even made a Punnett Square for the lavender wheaten project and now understand how you came up with the ratios that you predicted.   :D

Susie

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