Shadeds Genetic Question

[HappyFarmBunnies]

I was recently turned on to this color calculator (by someone on this site!) and was playing around with it tonight. I put in a cross we have done before, sable point to siamese sable. When we did this breeding, we got one siamese sable and one blue point.

The calculator says phenotypically we would only get seal, chocolate sable and blue seal.
http://mammarabbit.com/genetic_calc/index.php

Is the calculator wrong, or am I?

If the calculator's wrong, I should probably know, because I'm using it to help base some of the decisions I'm making about buying future stock in two weeks.

 

[GorbyJobRabbits]

I'm not good with genetics let me point that out... but I'm not understanding how you would get some of those colors. shadeds is what I do as well... and out of all the billionso f questions I've asked, those colors have never really come up too much.

Hopefully Shaded night rabbitry or someone else good with colors will come along.

 

[GorbyJobRabbits]

when I just put in Sable point to REW it's showing only Lilac point... I would like to say the box is off.

 

[HappyFarmBunnies]

Lilac Point I'm thinking is their "What the hell?" color, their wild card. Because is shows up on almost anything, as the last result.

REW and BEW I would understand to be different from the others, but sable point and siamese sable? I would think they would be a bit more predictable...

 

[GorbyJobRabbits]

Tabby said you can get pretty much any shaded out of those... but the ones you listed you wouldn't get unless they carried for it. Im sending her that link lol

 

[hillrise]

I like this calculator a lot more: http://www.ephiny.net/tim/pedigrees/color_calc.php

She's missing a few things (like Harlequins), but I emailed her and she said she's working on getting it finished.

It also doesn't get that the difference between a seal and a sable point is that seal is chl/chl while sable point is chl/ch or chl/c, but it will give you a decent idea, especially if you fill in the second gene for each pair.

 

[HappyFarmBunnies]

I have seen that calculator a few other times hillrise, I just don't quite understand how to read it. How do the percentages break down on the right hand side?

 

[hillrise]

The results page shows a table where the left column lists potential colors, and the right is the approximate chance of getting that color.

I suppose where it gets confusing is when the left column lists several colors in one box, for instance it might list Chestnut, Red, Orange. What it's telling you when there are more than one color is that one of the parents is giving an unknown gene which may or may not be dominant to the known gene (if there is one). That percentage only applies to one color listed in the adjacent box, but which one specifically is unknown.