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As you noted, to work with true Lemon Blues, you will need to get the birchen e gene involved. This is easiest via brown red. Basically you need the following genes; birchen, blue, and gold. Along the way you may get other varieties hatched such as silver blues, silver Birchens, splash blues...

Nana - On Lemon Blues, the lacing is generally limited to the hackle and breast on hens. Additionally, it is the reverse of what you've got - "lemony" on the edge and blue on the feather body. If I had to guess I'd say a variant of blue laced something, possibly on a wheaten base (ewh) rather...

Mine are all bantams. I had a busy summer with hatching chicks, building a new barn, and keeping up with all the regular chores! With all the work and now many days of rain I haven't had time to get many pictures but hopefully can get to it this week. Pen 1 produced slightly more than half of...

With winter around the corner I thought I should update regarding my Lemon Blue Project. This (second) season, I bred from two pens with 2 roosters and 5 hens each. 3 males were brown reds and one was a Lemon Blue. With pen 1 (2 BR males) were four blue hens nd one birchen hen. In pen 2 (1 LB...

WildWood- Don't get discouraged! Because the BR (or LB) birds are rare with not many breeders working on them, the quality usually needs to be built over time. The standards were written for the ideal birds, not necessarily what's actual out there. It's a whole picture target. If you're going...

It may seem like a cop out by answering your question this way but it depends upon what your expectations are for your birds. That is, it depends upon what traits you are looking at improving or encouraging in your birds and which you are hoping to discourage or eliminate. Beyond the usual...

Mary- Looks like a couple of good ales to get you going. BTW, I picked up 2 birchen hens, 6 BR hens and 3 roosters to go with what I had. I'm shooting to breed with blues and my silver blues so fingers crossed for more Birchens, BR, LB, and SB next summer.lots of blues available so ill have...

Wife- Brown reds are the gold birchen variety. The most likely route would be to start with (silver) birchen and breed to a gold based blue. The 1st generation would include some silver gold splits. Breed the splits back to the gold based or each other and you could get a few brown reds in...

Technically, LF Lemon Blues don't exist as there are no LF Brown Red Birchens in LF. That being said, a few breeders have been breeding larger and larger BRs to create them. In fact, I have two Pullet BRs that are just about LF size for my LB breeding project. After I get chicks out of that pen...

While not the best type, this male shows the breast lacing quite well. He is split for gold/silver and may get used as all of the blues I test mated so far seem to be pure silver. As you can see, the females show less breast lacing but still ok. As gold/silver is sex linked, she would be just...

One thing to keep in mind is that hackle and back stripes can also be caused by what's called leakage especially in males. Usually this can be caused by two similar acting genes. In my breeding programs I often get striped males in the first generation crosses of black , blues or splashes with...

Ashley - My bantam LB project chicks generally start to show a little color in hackles and/or male saddles at 6-8 weeks but don't develop full markings for several more months. Breast lacing usually comes after the hackle color starts showing up. Once they're into adult feathering they're full...

What a nice bunch of BRs and LBs - I'm jealous! Now that I'm getting the genes worked out on the blue line I'm using, hopefully LBs will be in my future too. BTW the BRs I got from Jamie are settling in fine although I'm still heartsick over losing the male. The girls are looking great and...