White Khaki Campbell Duckling

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Cooply · **Joined:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:44 pm **Posts:** 1

This is interesting because I also breed parrots and many mutations came from inbreeding like the blue 28. The avian genetics site says------ Any regime of inbreeding will quickly bring such mutations to the surface. As soon as any species becomes established in captivity, such factors are discovered. ------

Seem there's always something new coming out hey

ColacWaterfowl · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:07 pm

Many more pop out in the parrot world than the fowl world but its a numbers game

ColacWaterfowl · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2013 5:09 pm

Weston wrote:

ColacWaterfowl wrote:

There is no mutation until the genes come together I.E 2 copies of each from sire and dam.

To help those that don't understand what CW is saying here a little example

Let say you have 1001 brown emus and the code we will say is (BE) for this exercise

Ok so if we mate a male and female together of brown emus both being (BE) then the chicks will be....................... you guessed it (BE) ok now lets say within the 1001 brown emus 1 male has a mutant gene (simple terms) and 1 female also has the same mutant gene (simple terms) and for the example we will say the mutant gene is (e) (notice its a little e and not a capital E) so we see the code as (Be) so the 1 male that has the code (Be) finally after 9 years meets up with the 1 female in the 1001 that is also (Be) and guess what.............. yep 1 of the chicks (or more) is PINK! OMG its a miracle! no its the fact that the genes needed (Be) x (Be) = % of (Be) so you can see the " 2 copies CW mentioned are needed. I hope this simple example helps. I should add that this does not happen all to often especially in the wild

You could have included the + for wild type

good example mate [smilie=a_goodjobson.gif]