Spaulding cock crossed with a india blue hen

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CallPro88 said:
Hi, I was wondering what I would get if I crossed my Spaulding cock with a India blue hen? Thank you
Ryan
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It depends on the % of green blood in the rooster. If he is a 50/50 split you can expect a lower green looking pea. If he is high % this increases the green visibility. As for looks, some chicks will look more blue and some less it all depends on that rooster in this situation.

Gerald Barker
 
Also since they are hybrids they will vary widely in how they actually look. You can have a low % green that looks alot like a java or a higher percent green that looks more like an india blue. Until you get into the really high % spaldings or really % percent ones a spalding bird can have a widely varied appearance.
 
Midnightman14 said:
Also since they are hybrids they will vary widely in how they actually look. You can have a low % green that looks alot like a java or a higher percent green that looks more like an india blue. Until you get into the really high % spaldings or really % percent ones a spalding bird can have a widely varied appearance.
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How can it be explained scientifically?
 
With any hybrid there is alot of variation in what they might look like on the outside vs. what genes are actually there. It's unpredictable because with spaldings they're not color mutations in and of themselves so there's no set formula to what genes might get expressed phenotypically. That's why you can have two spaldings from the same parents who look very different
 
.... but with the first spalding !
Pure green X pure blue !


Hybridization of hybrid roses is not the same that hybridization of pure roses ( rosa galica or rosa centifolia ).

To increase the %age of spalding ... green blood is better than to decrease it !
 
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From my own experience a pure green to an india blue will make a bird that looks like an india blue but with more green on the neck and slightly different facial features.The legs might be a bit longer too but not always when it come to determining spalding blood. The bird on the left is a 50/50 spalding cock the right bird is a 75%.
 
Midnightman14 said:
Also since they are hybrids they will vary widely in how they actually look. You can have a low % green that looks alot like a java or a higher percent green that looks more like an india blue. Until you get into the really high % spaldings or really % percent ones a spalding bird can have a widely varied appearance.
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Dany12 said:
How can it be explained scientifically?
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Meiosis.
 

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