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Thank you so much for replying!! It was very informative and helpful! I will definitely get more pics up asap. :)

I'm looking for input on this Splash Silkie. I'm 99% sure it's a pullet. It hatched on 6/10/18... so still fairly young. I bought her when she was 3 days old and have raised her. I've never showed before, but I've been considering getting into it.

Light Blue Tag: Purple Tag: Orange Tag: Blue Tag:

I will take pictures of them today and post them. Thank you :)

My quad of DLS Barnevelders that I bought a few months ago are almost 19 weeks.. when should I be able to tell if they are cockerels or pullets? At what point/age do you cull for lacing? This breed is completely new for me. I know that with other laced breeds the older they are, the crisper...

I have Lavender Orps and they breed just fine. It took my roo a couple times to figure out what he was doing, but now I have 100% fertile rate. I have one roo with four hens. Just be patient with them.

That's really awesome that you have all of that figured out! I really appreciate all your help. I guess it's just easier for me to see an example of something until I learn all of it. This is my revised version: Males are ZZ and females are ZW. Z is a longer chromosome than W, so males have...

Oh I realize what I did. I was just using a punnett, when I should have been using a Dihybrid punnett square.

I'm in the process of figuring it out lol https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chocolate-and-blue-orpington-color-genetics.1219858/#post-19506802

Also, how did you get the splash chocolates?

So for the punnett square, are the ones on the left male and the right are female?

I don't understand how the cockerels can be mauve if they need two chocolate genes to appear chocolate? Could you also explain to me the corrections? It's a lot to learn lol but I want to make sure I understand everything.

This is what I have down according to what I've researched about the Blue and Chocolate genes and using the punnett square. Does this sound correct?: Males are ZZ and females are ZW. Z is a longer chromosome than W, so males have two copies of some genes that females are only able to have one...

Thank you!

I'm attempting to write out the genetics of breeding Chocolate and Blues to make Mauves. When you breed a Chocolate rooster (choc/choc) over a Splash hen (Bl/Bl), you get 100% (choc/Bl) offspring, which results in Mauve pullets and Blue cockerels. Would these cockerels also be split to...