I have produced blue mottled chickens by appropriate crosses descended from a cross of Ancona and Blue Andalusian and found that the mottling (particularly the amount of white) remained reasonably constant in the three generations of crosses. Since the cross of Exchequer Leghorn and Ancona is...
I have produced blue mottled chickens from crosses involving only Ancona and Blue Andulusian. Has anyone else put blue and mottled together in same chicken? Or the combination of blue and pied?
I am a retired geneticist from Indiana University making appropriate crosses to produce all blue, mottled offspring. I need 2 - 4 Ancona hens to breed to a homozygous blue mottled rooster that I have produced. I have not been able to find any available Ancona pullets or hens.
