I’ve been researching these articles for months. It was going to be this nice simple single page on the topic (*insert wry laugh*). The more I researched, the more I found.
In the end, I had to break it up into multiple sections, because I had to do a proper job on it. And even then, what I’ve written is, I suspect, little more than an overview.
The sections are:
Part 3: Slow- and fast-feathering (this article)
Note that due to the vagaries of Substack, which doesn’t have the ability to create tables, any tables are created them as downloadable PDFs. The table images are linked to the PDF so you can download and print them for your own use; click on the image to open the PDF.
If you find them useful and wish to share, please reference them back to this Substack article: I’ve spent a lot of time on these!
Contents
Mediterranean breed males
Slow-feathering females - breeds in Australia
Slow-feathering females - breeds not in Australia
The genetics behind feather-sexing
The K gene
The principle
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