REY K. BAJENTING

Rey Bajenting is a professional roosterman, having been a handler, conditioner in his younger days, he is now a breeder.

He is also a writer. He had been a newspaperman, PR practitioner and Public Affairs Consultant. He had worked as Legislative Staff Chief in Congress, Consultant to the Governor of Cebu, and Executive Assistant at the |Office of the Executive Secretary in Malacanang.

Do stags get traits from the mother?

That’s what they say. But truth is stags and pullets get their genes from both the father and the mother, 50-50. However, the phenotype sometimes favor the brood cock, sometimes the hen. This is due to interactions of genes such as dominant/recessive; partial/co-dominance; or sex affected traits.

For example is the sex-linked trait. The hen can pass on sex-linked trait only to sons and not to daughters. An example is the color grey. The plumage color grey is sex-linked and it is dominant.

When you mate a red cock with a grey hen, all the stags are grey, and all the pullets are red. When this happens the breeder who is ignorant of how genes are inherited, will immediately observe that stags get traits from the mother and pullets from the father.

In reality, however, it is just because grey is sex-linked and dominant. Because it is sex-linked it can only be passed on by the grey hen to sons and not to daughters. And, since it is dominant all the stags appear as grey. However, the stags are actually half grey and half red (50-50), but because grey is dominant, the red color is hidden.

This is only one of the simpler examples. There are many others that are more vital to breeding good gamefowl. So, study. Don’t get misled by observations without explanations. There are many circulating around for several decades. But, now science can explain and help us produce the gamefowl we want.

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