BCM x red sex link - updated 14 week old photos - Page 2

most of my hens are still recovering from molting.  I'll try to snap a pic of the darker hen soon and post.  The "white copper" is in heavy molt still.
I had one hen that I lost in the fire that was a beautiful version of this cross.  She had a red enhancer - mahogany or some other autosomal red that made her hackle deep red, and she had decent amount of colored hackle.  The rest of her was super shiny beetle green black.  She reminded me of Christmas.

has the first one gotten any feathers in yet?

I agree with Village Chicken but would like to add additional information.

Your black copper is a wheaten/ birchen heterozygote. That is typical for the marans. The wheaten chick will be a columbian restricted wheaten marans- basically a black tailed red; without the leg feathering.

The other chicks could be any of several possibilities. The birchen allele is quirky and does not always produce the same phenotype on birds with the columbian gene.

The white chick will be white with red leaking through the white; I can not predict a red pattern on the adult plumage of the white or the black chick because the birchen allele and the columbain gene do not always interact and produce the same red patterns. Some times the columbian gene is hypostatic ( does not cause changers in the birchen color pattern) to the birchen allele, the columbian gene can sometimes only cause lacing on a birchen breast, the columbian gene can sometimes produce a modified columbian restriction or at other times produce a columbian restricted bird. The preceding information is specific to birchen/wheaten heterozygotes. Homozygous birchen and other E locus heterozygous birchen  combinations interact differently with the columbian gene.

I have been consulting  Bev Davis for about 4 years concerning her Marans. Do not get upset about your Marans being heterozygous. You can import birds from France and their bird varieties are genetically diverse also. It will take the American Marans breeders to clean up the mess and produce Marans varieties  that are homogeneous population.

Egg color always suffers when a Marans is out crossed.

Tim

Those are pretty.

I done a cross with red sexlinks.  Used a White Rock rooster over them.  Produced a bunch of colors and patterns on the chicks.

Never took picture though and only kept 5 of the pullets from this cross they all startred laying (usually 5 to 6 days a week) then they all the sudden started dying off until I was left with only 1 hen.  Gave her to my dad and she still alive a laying almost everday. 

Keckels,

Thanks for posting all of the info and pictures. How dark are the eggs these girls lay?  Pretty flock!