Babies Zebra Fledged

bonnies_gouldians · Post by **bonnies_gouldians** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:25 pm

cute little Mohawk. Sucks to hear that the homozygous form of the gene causes baldness.

dfcauley · Post by **dfcauley** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:11 pm

My foster society finches are crested. They have"slipped" an egg in on me now and then. The babies did not have a crest.

L in Ontario · Post by **L in Ontario** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:28 pm

dfcauley wrote:My foster society finches are crested. They have"slipped" an egg in on me now and then. The babies did not have a crest.

If they are both (all) crested, then the babies supposedly will not have crests and could potentially have health issues - or so I've read.

bonnies_gouldians · Post by **bonnies_gouldians** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:00 pm

I wonder if the crest is a "split" form of baldness which seems like it might be a recessive trait. I know some of you guys hate genetics but I am thinking it is a visual "split" (this happens in a morph of ball pythons where the heterozygous or split form of a pastel shows much brighter color than a normal, but when two pastels are bred together you get 25% "super pastels" which is the homozygous expression of the ressive trait with the animal being a brilliant yellow color with a beautiful white spot on its head). I enjoy genetics and one time got crazy with it and did a 5 simple recessive trait punnett square by hand. It took me about 5 hours to finish it all including the percentage chance of getting a certain phenotype and genotype. I still get confused with gouldians though, they have some odd things with their head/breast colors that I still dont understand...all well, can't win 'em all