Good evening.
Okay, I\'ve read the 2005 handbook (still looking for the previous one in my files). I wanted to verify what I\'ve read before getting ahead of myself, as I\'m already getting several ideas going on-on top of the Ameraucana projects I\'m already working on.
Aside from the wheaten family, we\'re gaining the duckwing family in the Silvers and the other colors/patterns are based on birchen. This gives us E^R, e^wh and e+ at the E-locus to work with. These E-locus alleles as well as many other genetic factors have largely come from Buff Orpington, Light Brown Leghorn, Black Australorp (an Orpington derivative) Old English, Wyandotte and some inclusion of Polish. Is this correct? Did I miss any breeds?
Please forgive me for oversimplifying all of the above, I\'m just trying to get a broad over head view of recent genetic influences.
Regards,
Dan Demarest
Missouri