Posted by Jacob Johnston So what causes the variation? Will breeding a unitufted bird produce mostly unitufted chicks in the tufted portion of the hatch, especially if bred to a nontufted bird? Or will that nontufted/unitufted cross be as likely to produce an evenly tufted offspring as an evenly tufted/nontufted mix? Is there any way to increase the size of the offspring's tufts without breeding the already tufted bird to another tufted bird?
on 10/16/2006, 5:17 pm
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I've read the tuft genetics section of Rings in Their Ears, but I'm still a bit curious about a couple of things. First, I have a bird with only a single tuft. Now this is a rather large tuft, but it's only the one. Second I have a couple of birds with very small tufts, but there are two of them and they're even.
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