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i think that there are a few people who have bred green layers that breed true (carry two copies of blue gene) like Whiting True Green and Silverrud Isbar. There is a genetic formula for how to create this over many generations

I think this chart shows how to get the darker Olive color but doesn’t show the possibility that the F1 oliveegger crossed back to dark brown layer can produced brown eggs.

Thank you!!!! This is just what I suspected. I know that there are many genes involved with the brown so it makes sense that it would pass forward 99% of the time but the blue is singular in an olive egger so should only pass 50% of the time. It was easier to get when I realized that an olive...

I have an Olive Egger hen that was born to a Black Copper Marans x Ameraucana. If I breed her to a BCM the resulting chicks will be 50% Olive Eggers and 50% brown egg layers, correct? Because this olive egger hen only carries one blue egg laying gene and will pass it on approx 50% of the time...

Belgian Malines are a cuckoo breed. Not technically autosexing but people with the breed can generally tell male from female at hatch because males have two cuckoo genes which makes them lighter in color than the females that only carry one. if you crossed a Maline on a Created Cream Legbar...

All of the hens are all Bielefelder. The rooster is a splash Ameraucana or a Bielefelder).

All male chicks would be barred and all females would be solid. I do not believe pea combs or muff/beards are dominant traits and so not all of the ameraucana would have these features.

I have been looking for local Bielefelder eggs with no success. I finally found a Breeder that has a group of Bielefelder hens with two Bielefelder roosters the issue is she also has a Splash Ameraucana that has been in that pen. I’m trying to figure out how easily I would be able to pick out...

Thank you. I’m looking at these photos and I know there is no doubt I just needed someone else to say it 😭

11 weeks (+2 days) and just when I am 100% sure he is a cockerel I second guess myself. I could bring him to his new home tomorrow as a friend is looking for a blue Ameraucana rooster but I just haven’t let go of that nagging doubt he could still be a she. This is my favourite bird so I think I...

Does anyone have reference photos for black vs chocolate chicks? I have chicks that appear chocolate (out of a chocolate Orpington rooster over a black Copper marans hen) but the issue is I have 4 that I would definitely say appear chocolate but I only put in 3 eggs that could have produced...

thank you for taking the time to respond. I didn’t know if it was possible for some of the chicks to express some black or not. As these Bovans are from a commercial Hatchery and patented genetics it’s hard to say what their parent stock is but it is fair to say it will be highly specific.

I have a Chocolate Orpington Rooster and in the pen I have 2 Commercial bovan hens. The are both red with white streaks in their neck and end of tails feathers. I believe they would be a red sex link. I know that they can not express chocolate as they have no black. But I’m wondering what color...

Are there any breeders in Canada (or US that ship to Canada) of Cuckoo Marans that have a 4+ in egg color (marans scale)?

But if the breeder used an Cream Legbar rooster and Isbar hens then the babies would not be sexable

Ask the breeder what the parents of the Icecream bars are. Some breeders use different crosses and the cross has to be done with the rooster being black base and the hen being a certain color. Icecream bars that are an Isbar rooster crossed on a Cream Legbar Hen would have solid black or blue...

Did this chick end up being male? I have the same coloration

Ah! I see what you are saying now. That totally makes sense. Thank you. I think part of my problem (I keep getting mixed up) is that I think of barnevelders as black bird with white or gold “lacing” not silver or gold birds with black lacing. Same with the Wyandotte’s or Polish. I read that...

LofMc, Thank you for the reply! What great info. Your olives are amazing! I was just looking at the Rhodebars at Greenfire. Question to clarify- the cross you did of the silver Barnevelder on BCM, did you meant the other way around because wouldn’t (for sex link) the roo have to be the BCM...

I can’t quite explain it but I’m obsessed with sex linked and autosexing chickens and also cross breeding purebreds for specific characteristics. I always have a lot of questions about the color genetics or characteristics so thought rather than posting a new post every time I would just keep...