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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    I'm sorry you misunderstood. A chicken breed is a group of chickens with distinct and consistent physical characteristics, such as body shape, skin color, feather patterns, and comb type. These traits are passed down through generations when bred within the same breed. Not all chicken breeds are...
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    Is anyone breeding barred Ameraucana?

    I'm working on a project and Im not satisfied with the barred Ameraucana that I have to work with. Anyone else breeding barred Ameraucana and would consider selling/shipping eggs or chicks? Im trying to breed both double barring and double mottling into my Ameraucanas to see if I can recreate...
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    What would a black copper marans rooster over a Delaware hen look like?

    NatJ described it really well. You'd basically get black sex links.
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    So this is not exactly true. Prairie BlueBell are a hybrid and will not breed true; they probably have 1 gene for blue and 1 gene for white eggs so the offspring can be any combination of blue/blue, blue/white, or white/white. Whiting True Blues on the other hand are pure for blue genes and all...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    The two brown ones are feathering out brown, no indication of the white feathers like on the 55 male. The one i am assuming is a splash ee is feathering out white.
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    @nicalandia does it look like I'm on the right track? I have more hatching out this week and I'd love to know which ones are worth keeping.
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    The Delaware breed is a barred silver columbian colour. Blue is a dilution gene over black so you will basically get black and blue barred babies. They'll be cute but they won't be sex linked as all the offspring will carry 1 gene for barring, inherited from the rooster.
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    The chick photo of the 55s on GFF page is basically my only comparison right now but they don't have an obvious headspot either.
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    My original roosters were a splash barred EE and a black barred EE over speckled sussex hens. Resulting females are 4 black barred and 1 blue barred. The 1 blue barred hen has a pea comb and lays a nice blue egg, the others are single comb and lay green/teal or tan. I had a blue ameraucana that...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    Ok so back to my project ;) I had a few more hatch out and I'm thinking my first light colored fluffy butt was actually a splash EE from one of my culled roosters. Take a look at the photo and give me your thoughts. Do these two look like they have the barring gene at all?? I'm used to looking...
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    Sex Link Breeding for Egg Color

    Light blue egg: use a Blue Black Splash Ameraucana Rooster / over a barred ameraucana hen (Sandhill preservation center has them for sale on their website) or a CA Grey hen (they lay prolifically and are not as skittish as I've found leghorns to be)
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    I ran my F1 hens with my f1 rooster but hadn't culled out my EE roosters until last week. I still did a test hatch to make sure my incubator was up and running. From these chick's, it looks like I have 1 female F2, 1 male F2, and then a handful of sexlinks. I still have more in the incubator...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    Genetic make up of 55 Flowery pattern is e+/e+, mo/mo, s+/s+ (gold based) B/B(B/- for females). That means wild type down color, double dose of mottling, and barring. The 55s come in gold and silver so I don't know that it's important that the originals were gold base... the reason the females...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    I think the SS has those genes covered. Does anyone know, is it just the double dose of barring and double dose of mottling that gives the white male? There isn't another gene at play?
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    I'm sourcing very old threads that nicalandia participated in for reference. I really respect Nic and generally don't question his knowledge. "Genetic make up of 55 Flowery pattern is e+/e+, mo/mo, s+/s+ (gold based) B/B(B/- for females) Genetic Make up for the Speckled pattern, e+/e+ mo/mo...
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