I understand that BB Red x Recessive black (in Old English game chickens) makes a Brassy Back, but what carries the recessive black gene to make a Brassy Back? Is there any sure way to know that a chicken carries recessive black? or is just something that you have to breed to the bb red to see...
Old English Game Bantams as Bred and Shown in the United States
By F.P.Jeffrey and William Richardson
I see a small poultry supply seller which sells the book for $17.00, but I'm wondering if I could find a type of digital copy ?
That clarifies everything thanks a ton! My first idea was to make something like this hen on the left in Old English Game, or this cream like hamburg but I'm starting to realize how that is out of the realms of reality, I'm getting some bb red "spangled" and splash Old English Game chickens, and...
Is the spangled gene the same gene on blues? The pattern that blues get is that the same pattern gene as spangled? and could you use that to enhance the pattern or would the spangled/blue pattern die off?