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bantamhill:
Brown red Ameraucana bantam.
John:
I have gotten brown red bantams from black crossed with *silver, but the bantam silvers still don\'t breed true and some still are *birchen instead of being pure for wild-type.
Mike Gilbert:
John,
The chipmunk striped chicks are pure for wild type, as Birchen is dominant over \"e\" and any chick carrying the birchen gene would have chick down that is black or near black.
Mike
John:
--- Quote ---any chick carrying the birchen gene would have chick down that is black
--- End quote ---
I am learning as I go. This may be the first year that all of the bantam silvers are hatching with the \"chipmunk\" look, so I have finally quit using birchen. In the past some hatched black and I raised them. Remember years ago I showed a very nice birchen cockerel that I thought was silver...until the finer points were pointed out (thanks). Well I figured the birchen males were close to silver males and bred from them hoping to breed in the missing white in the wing bay area. In short I was building on the wrong foundation (but that\'s another sermon). Year after year I thought I was so close to having some great silvers, but kept going backyards by crossing the birchens in with the silvers. Yes, I should have culled all the black chicks (hindsight is great).
It is possible that some of the *silvers that I used were actually E^R/e^+ and not pure silver. That may explain why I could get brown red and blue chicks when crossing them with blacks and whites.
Give me another 20 years and I might get it right. :thinking:
Guest:
John,
Where did the blue gene come from?
Rooster
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