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EXHIBITION POULTRY
Q - My wild color Modern English
must have green legs but they have yellow legs. The F1 generation I had
was crossbred from wild-color/greenlegs x pile/yellowlegs. Breeding F2
to a wild color/greenleg still gave
wildcolor/yellowlegs. What can
I do to become pile/yellowlegs or wildcolor/greenlegs in the next generation?
A -Leg color is very complicated
, tends to behave as a sex link trait. And deals with more than one gene.There
are 2 layers for leg color. White is black with no color, Yellow is yellow.
Pale yellow is yellow with restriction. Black is black. Blue is black with
restriction, Green is yellow and blue (black with restriction). It appears
that you are missing the blue.
Was your F2 the product of mating
the F1s together? Or did you mate the F1 to an out cross? Do you
still have your P1s (the parents that produced the F1s)? Do you still
have your F1s?
As yellow legs are recessive,
keep all yellow birds to use in your pyle matings. (both BB Red and pyles).
Make sure that the male has the proper color as he passes this on to his
daughters. His sons have the male genes plus the females genes.
Are you BB Reds really good,
so that you must keep that line, or are you willing to start over again?
If you must keep your BB Reds you will have to much out crossing to get
the legs right.
LINKS:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4175/genes.html