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Post by biteybird on Jan 24, 2016 23:34:35 GMT -5
I agree with Easttex and Aaron - a vet visit might be in order and the peace of mind it may bring you will more than offset the expense. Do you know how much your little one weighs? I have been thinking she looks a bit on the thin side (at least in the profile picture).
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Post by wsteinhoff on Jan 25, 2016 6:40:42 GMT -5
I agree with Easttex and Aaron - a vet visit might be in order and the peace of mind it may bring you will more than offset the expense. Do you know how much your little one weighs? I have been thinking she looks a bit on the thin side (at least in the profile picture). She may be small looking because she's a genetic mutation being that she's white. Bishop only weighs 82 grams and the vet said that's because he's a blue genetic mutation. To get these it takes inbreeding which after doing for so long will start to produce smaller birds. This is true with the pigeons that I do also so it makes sense that that would likely be the reason. As none of us have really seen a white quaker until now that would mean it's a considerably rarer color mutation requiring more inbreeding than others. Because I breed the pigeons I have done a lot of research on genetics and this is my understanding of how this works, if someone knows genetics though and that this is wrong then feel free to correct me. |
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Post by easttex on Jan 25, 2016 7:57:34 GMT -5
It fits with the little I know about genetics. You just have to hope that the people doing the breeding to develop new mutations really know what they're doing, and that they don't breed in undesirable traits along with the desirable.
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Post by wsteinhoff on Jan 25, 2016 8:12:53 GMT -5
It fits with the little I know about genetics. You just have to hope that the people doing the breeding to develop new mutations really know what they're doing, and that they don't breed in undesirable traits along with the desirable. Well the main reason for inbreeding is to keep certain desirable traits in the bloodline without letting in any undesirable ones. |
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Post by easttex on Jan 25, 2016 12:43:41 GMT -5
That's the danger. A breeder may not even be aware of certain traits, because they're recessive, and with a varied gene pool, they won't show up very often. But with inbreeding, it can be very different. I'm thinking of things like diseases, or internal things that would never persist in a wild population. Hemophilia in European royalty is a human example. Well, I'm a worrier; it's what I do.  |
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Post by ponyrider on Jan 26, 2016 13:13:36 GMT -5
To answer your question, she weighs in at 92 grams.
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