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Laced Blue Ameraucana
Christie Rhae:
I love to play with the kippen calculator thing. Of course it is all just theory.
When I run it with F1 to F1 it seems like the odds are a lot higher to get the right set of genes. When I run F1 back to laced andalusian parent the odds of getting blue, laced, beard, pea comb, blue egg is 2.64%. (1.17% male, 1.17% female) with the likely hood being 1 in 86 birds to breed.
When I run the calculator with F1 to F1 the odds are way worse. I don't really understand how that works. It seems like it should be better odds. The odds of correct genes are 0.02% with a minimum of 4096 to breed!! Maybe I am using this thing wrong, maybe it is flawed.
I think I may try it both ways.
Chicklover:
F1 Pictures of the first birds in the project.
Christie Rhae:
Very nice! Thank you for sharing. Cant wait till I have F1's.
Zach_Rose:
What is nice about breeding a splash and black is that all result offspring are blue. Instead of 50/50 with breeding blue and black. The problem is that you may end up with one bird having the perfect lacing gene combo, but it be black, and you possibly might not notice. Where as splash and black will throw all blue so you can pick out the best lacing, easily.
Christie Rhae:
Yes that is correct.. splash X Black makes all blue. And in the parent generation if your splash for sure carries all the lacing genes then I think it is ok. But in later generations that is part of the challenge with this project is that we really should only breed blue to blue because it is only in the blues that we will know for sure that the bird carries all the pattern genes.
I have read that people who breed blue andalusians only breed blue to blue. This somehow affects the quality of the blue. I am not near that stage yet so will not worry about it for awhile.
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