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Aubrey,
I might be able to save you some trouble, I have a very old article that was scanned in, can't remember where I found it but it is from teh original development of teh silver laced wyandotte and discusses how to choose the breeder birds and pair up to resolve the many problems...
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My experience is don't even think it. I lost a full pen of birds that were in the middle pen, to a fox. all were due to be cleaned up for a show that weekend then moved inside the best birds of that variety I had raised to date and it was breed nationals. Now th ereally good ones go...
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pen 1 Silver quail male x Quail female= Silver quail females and Golden Males
pen 2 Silver quail male x Splash females= seudo blue silver quail females (some pattern loss) and Blue Silver Males (possible some pattern loss)
Pullets from Pen 1 mated to thier father will result in all...
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well if the Black Breastd Red hen have red enhancers this could still show up even on silver males.. autosomal red or Mahogany can do this.
Salmon Faveroles carry Mahogany in them and they are Silver(S/S) based
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If you breed...
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Porcelian and Millie work well together, and bounc eback and forth very well since it is the same pattern and base genes. the self Blue is 1 of 4 crosses needed to make both varieties and will result in a lot of un-expected results. I made that cross along with a few others working on...
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I supose golden would be possible if the quail is carrying cream, some do and some don't but if you get a cream then keep it, the cream will produce true breeding golden duckwing but th ehens will have cream colored hackles as well. Where as other Golden Ducking is based on one copy of...
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I supose golden would be possible if the quail is carrying cream, some do and some don't but if you get a cream then keep it, the cream will produce true breeding golden duckwing but th ehens will have cream colored hackles as well. Where as other Golden Ducking is based on one copy of...
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I understand the BB red cock back to the F1 producing more BB but is teh Buff columbian from an F1xF1 or is that from the Back cross to BB as well?
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I'd go with the quail, but just because off them you might be able to make some buff columbians also.
Either way will work, but that rec white can be a pain in the but on them too.
lcw, he look OK . Think he has to be from a blue quail line due to the yellow body color. The blue...