Breeding FAIL again! Trying for a strawberry blonde chicken.

[nicalandia]

soft peach. About the same as a buff only lighter

let me find some pics so you can choose from ok

 

[nicalandia]

ok here I go..

the cream gene(which is recessive and found only on a few breeds of chickens, I have to see a large bird with cream gene add it)

here a citron spangled hamburgs(ignore the black spots, just think of them as solid colored)




now to Lemon Buff
this is my lemon buff naked neck hen


"Lemon" cuckoo buff(which is just barring add it to buff)


columbian Buff(not solid buff, but mostly buff) can be had in lighter shades if you add blue and/or Dominant white to its background


now comes the Champagne blonde color(not to be confused with the champagne blond gene found on buff birds)

champagne blond is a mix of columbian buff with lavender, if you add self buff to lavender you create the isabela color wich is a very pale color, maybe you want to start with a dark buff bird and add lavender to have that peach color..






now tell me what is the color you want and I can help you with genetics

 

[hdowden]

i like the champagne but thats just me and i want that color in d'uccles...

 

[draye]

Love that champagne brahma pullet.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

Maybe a mahoghany with a champagne diluter?

 

[nicalandia]

Maybe a mahoghany with a champagne diluter?

wont work, Mahogany is a tough gene to dilute,

the list of Diluting genes that wont Dilute Mahogany
Cream(citroen)
Dilute(found of self buff birds)
Sex linked Silver
Blue
Dominant white

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

What would make a nice, bright yellow? I have the pale buffs, but they are too peachy for my tastes. Would dom white turn buff yellow or pale peach?

 

[Henk69]

Dominant white will cover pretty much any other color (I've heard it described as a genetic "off switch" for other colors) so it's difficult to downright impossible to know what genes your white birds are hiding.

That would be recessive white. Dom.white can be hidden in a solid buff chicken.

 

[draye]

I visited a farm 2 years ago and saw the most beautiful pale gold chickens. They looked like a much lighter version of Buff Orpingtons. Kind of a strawberry blonde color. They were just stunning. The farmer said they were a cross between Buff Orpingtons and White Rocks. They found that cross to do very well for them, big and meaty and good layers.

So I went home and got a White Rock rooster to cover my BO girls and waited for spring. What I got was a bunch of weird barred rock over orps that were anything but gorgeous. So this year I tried it again with a BO rooster over WR hens. Fail again. I'm getting some solid white chickens, some BO looking chickens and some with some barring.

So, I don't know if the farmer was pulling my leg or what. Is there any pure breed of chicken that is a solid, soft pale orangey gold? Or what would you cross to get that color? Is this a common cross and I'm just doing something wrong?

You still around? Having any luck with getting your pale gold chickens?

 

[Freeflying]

ok here I go..

the cream gene(which is recessive and found only on a few breeds of chickens, I have to see a large bird with cream gene add it)

here a citron spangled hamburgs(ignore the black spots, just think of them as solid colored)




now to Lemon Buff
this is my lemon buff naked neck hen


"Lemon" cuckoo buff(which is just barring add it to buff)


columbian Buff(not solid buff, but mostly buff) can be had in lighter shades if you add blue and/or Dominant white to its background


now comes the Champagne blonde color(not to be confused with the champagne blond gene found on buff birds)

champagne blond is a mix of columbian buff with lavender, if you add self buff to lavender you create the isabela color wich is a very pale color, maybe you want to start with a dark buff bird and add lavender to have that peach color..






now tell me what is the color you want and I can help you with genetics