Recent content by morbius18

I think maybe I wasn't clear then. I crossed the Rose straight F0 roo to a pea comb f0 hen. I then crossed that offspring F1 back to the f0 roo to confirm straight recessive. The offspring of the F0 roo and F1 hen had some straight combs. Is this not how you confirm recessives? This is...

I know there isn't an established blue laced red wyandotte standard. I'm curious if what I'm thinking of doing would be bad. I hatched some eggs under 3 broody hens. I didn't realize it, but a hen that was given to me by a friend as an ameraucana was an Easter egger with 1 blue and one white...

I ended up getting out of the GCMs. I had a few signs that I felt was a hint to go in other directions. First I had a fox carry off about 12 juveniles and kill off my years work. The Blue Copper hen I was using was attacked and took months to recover. Then I had about 25% of my last hatch...

I'm planning on replacing the rooster with the well patterned cockeral. What are your thoughts on this pullet then?

I found someone locally getting out of the chicken business and picked up 1 blue laced red rooster with poor lacing, a blue laced red hen, a black laced red hen and a splash laced hen and 16 juveniles. I had some good color come out of the juveniles, but had a few odd colors. Blue laced red...

I guess I'll keep working with what I have. If 1 copy of creme is dominant, then I can pull any offspring that dont show it and work with those. I think my roosters are heterozygous for is as this is their dam: I guess I could just start a cream cuckoo marans color. Splash would be...

I've got my first sitter. She's maybe a year old and has been sitting for the past 3 days. I gave her 3 Ameraucana cross to Black single barred rooster and 7 of the darkest marans eggs from both pens. We are still 3 weeks away from the first day of spring. It's a little early, but I don't...

Dark single barred rooster. Never really developed creme or red, just lighter. He had really bad frostbite on his tips.

Blue GCM. He's filled out some. We had really cold temps and he lost some point tips to frostbite.

This year I'll attempt to try to isolate which birds carry the gene. I'll just not be able to hatch as much. I'm breeding for myself, not to show. And there isn't an American Poultry Association recognized Golden Cuckoo color. I have 2 breeding pens set up with a smaller coop that I've got...

I'm not going to have as much time this year. My wife and I got full custody of my children. We had half, so before I had quite a bit more time. Thank God for broodys. Is that rooster a blue? He's got great coloring. I'm kinda split on the creme thing. I do like it, so I haven't decided to...

How has your season been going so far, my friend? Mine is getting ready to start. I'm probably not hatching any via the incubator this year. They are all only 1 year old, but I've got a bunch of hens that like to go broody, they will be my workforce since I don't have much time this spring...

How are these blue based birds created? I love Blue and splashes and would like to create some. My 10 month old quad of jubilees:

Part of the reason I am suspecting the dam of carrying the dilute gene is that I haven't gotten a single copper/red color hackle from this pairing. The sire has produced copper/red from different pairings. Is it worth exploring this as a separate line? It would be a 'cream cuckoo marans'. If...

It seems like my hens also carry the cream coloration. Blue copper marans, from blue black splash coppers, Mother of both with black barred daughters right below and in front of her (no gold): And pic of her black barred son: I'm guessing that they all posess the Di dilute gene, would...