Silver Laced Barnevelder Chicks/Hatching Eggs?

[Heluerto]

Beautiful bird - the place I got my hatching eggs from this time breed them, but this is in UK - sorry! This time I got a random selection of 12 eggs as I wanted a good variety - but next time I will be more selective. I would like one of these Silver Laced ones - I did get two normal Barnevelder and one blue laced one in my selection, so hoping at least one of them turns out to be a hen!!

 

[cedar post]

Someone awhile back was saying that they could be created here in the U.S. with some work. I can't find it at theis moment.

 

[Illia]

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I started a thread a while ago asking about it. Here's the thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=322729

 

[cedar post]

Quote:
I started a thread a while ago asking about it. Here's the thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=322729

Yes that's the one. I would love to work on this project sometime. It would have ups and downs but would be fun!! Mike

 

[marquisella]

Could you use a silver laced Wyandotte? I know people are using the blue laced Wyandottes to make the blue laced Barnevelder.

 

[tls_ranch]

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To make Silver double-laced Barnevelders, I was told that you should use a silver penciled rock or silver penciled wyandotte and cross it with a very good strain of Barnevelders. The Silver Laced wyandottes carry the columbian gene (messes up the lacing) and that will be hard to breed out with working with the silvers. With blue-laced you can keep crossing back with pure barnevelders to get better type, lacing, egg color and get rid of wrong genes like columbian. Eventually you could even keep the whole flock together as Black, Blue, Splash once the "blues" are up to breed standard. With the Silvers it's harder to get back to the right type, lacing, breed standard, etc because you can't back cross to a "gold" true Barnevelder with out adding gold and red leakage back in. You have to keep breeding the first "hybrid" offspring back together. It's also harder to introduce new blood and it would be a good idea to start with several pens of breeders. If I've gotten any of this wrong, hopefully a genetics expert will jump in and correct me

Trisha

 

[Sterkfarm]

Is there any reason I can't use dark brahmas instead of pencilled rocks? Is the 'penciling' the same, or not? Does anybody know? I'd like to give this a try as well...I have the barnies but now am having a hard time finding the silver gene bird. If anyone has a thought on this I'd love to hear about it. Way to go, Andy. This is a tough project! I'm in Canada...too bad, otherwise we could work together to get some nice lines going.

 

[big medicine]

The color pattern would be the same using dark Brahma instead of silver penciled rocks. But you complicate things considerably with feather legs and pea combs.

 

[Sterkfarm]

Feather legs! That's right; I forgot Brahmas have feathered legs. It's not a breed I have ever owned so I was unaware that was a breed trait. That would be very hard to get rid of. And penciled any things are impossible to find. Gah.

 

[mountainvieworchards]

I used blue Plymouth rocks to provide the silver gene. My original project was to get blue double laced and the silver gene came as a bonus. Starting over I would get a silver penciled Plymouth rock.