Bantam Corns: Possible New Mutation

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I just still can’t believe you gave him up! But I am so glad you did Dean! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart::pray::+1::ok_hand::clap::snake:

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I’d have named her Teapot, because she’s short and stout! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Jokes aside, she is such a stunning little animal! Can’t wait to see how she looks in another year or so.

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Ahhhhhh. so you too have jumped onto the Bantam Bandwagon! Congratulations Elijah! Pics soon? :pray::heart:

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I love it!

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Not typical. But I started her young and she bred perfectly three seasons straight. I have enough of her homozygous Bantam daughters and even a few hets that I don’t really need to keep breeding her. And IDing baby Bantams in a mixed clutch of homos and hets is challenging, so I’ll avoid it if possible from now on except assisting other breeders who are producing mixed clutches. :slight_smile:

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Teapot is a perfect name for a bantam!

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It wouid have been great. She’s already been re-named. Her cheese-themed clutch name was Curd. Terrible. Chispa is Spanish for spark, and she’s a little Inferno. :slight_smile:

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I’m calling the names Teapot, Mrs Potts, and Chip for my first baby bantams :wink:. Haha. Can you tell I have four kids and have seen that movie one too many times?

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Not possible. I believe you on the four kids - right there with ya - but that movie is one of my favorites. :grin:

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The lowest (Havarti) and co-highest (Chispa) expression Bantams from their clutch.

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What movie are you talking about?

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Disney “Beauty and the Beast. “

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Oh! I know the movie but I don’t think I have ever seen it!

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Mrs Potts is the mother teapot, and her son, Chip, is the cup (with a chip) that matches the teapot set. Very cute. The first Disney cartoon is my favorite of all the film versions, but I read the old fairy tales to my kids and I like the original story best of all.

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WOW! Those photos are telling. Chispa is such a little runty turned chunky. I LOVE her colors and the bantam saddle squish going on. So fun!

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Thanks Natalie. :slight_smile: One interesting thing is that baby expression level does NOT seem linked to parent expression level. These two have the same Bantam parents, after all (high expression x medium expression). And the most extreme one I’ve hatched came from the original het parents who have ZERO expression.

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So interesting. I wonder what genetic markers play into the expression level, then. Genetics is fascinating once again.

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