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developing a lemon blue
Guest:
I also was forwarded this recently:
http://www.panopliageneticus.com/
The article on red shoulder and related colors is quite interesting.
Guest:
Recessive black is under Varieties based on the e+ (wild type) allele
Brian Reeder knows chicken genetics. I am sure his site
http://www.panopliageneticus.com/ is very good.
Rooster
Mike Gilbert:
Curtis,
Well said. It should not be at all difficult to make lemon blues by staying within the breed. Besides everything else to look out for when crossing to an outside breed, there is also the matter of egg color for this breed. Some of our members are not at all happy with egg color in some varieties that has resulted from outcrosses. It should be blue, not green or some other color.
vanalpaca:
--- Quote from: Guest ---Recessive black is under Varieties based on the e+ (wild type) allele
Brian Reeder knows chicken genetics. I am sure his site
http://www.panopliageneticus.com/ is very good.
Rooster
--- End quote ---
This site is down, but he has now written a book on it and it was published in 2008 and again in 2011. He does have a new website up but it hasn\'t been updated in a while. I searched on brian reeder chicken genetics and found the site and the link to his book with a \'really long\' title....
I love that so many here can talk genetics. I will keep reading.
dixieland:
I love Lemon Blue and have been working on this in my LF Cochins for several years, but it\'s not an easy one!!! You can\'t just let type go to work on coloring....
If Brown Red is one of the most challenging varieties to breed in Ameraucanas ( I have heard this from several experienced breeders, not my words) then Lemon Blue will be very challenging as well.....
Is anyone currently working on this color project?? Lemon Blue is magnificent when it comes on a gorgeous bird!
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