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the "Sport" is alive and well in many locations in the world.. I dont breed for it, I know lots of people who breed them and its like religion to them, the feed them like if there were their own child, train them,
it could be recessive cream like a cream dutch bantam... Dominant Dilute has not been worked on so much as recessive cream, some believe the brassy backs carry Di(domiant Dilute) Blackdotte believes Di is on the cream/straw looking brassy backs..
Brassy Back e+/e+ s+/s+ Ar+/Ar+ Di/Di Ml/Ml...
oh I get it now, infact I would say I may go this rout myself, why? well very few silver duckwing hens carry autosomal red, elininating the need to getting rid of autosomal red that will enhance the shoulders on the boys, I would love to have an even cream/golden colored bird instead of cream...
I´m doing fine thanks, I have already isolated dominant Dilute in one Blue ER looking cokerel(ER/eWh with some unexpected melanizers found on the buff hen I used to extract the Dominant dilute gene Di) Di is also a pheomelanin diluter like recessive ig cream, I will be using BB game hens to...
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if the ¨Splash¨ hen is solid in color then most of the chicks will be solid in color with some leakage, you´ll get 50% splash and 50% blues all solids with some ground color leakage
give the chicken calculator a try.. its fun
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
here is what I got...
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Leghorns...
We need photos! How many generations into self blue x self blue are they? The first few generations of a good outcross will show improvements, but continual breeding of sb x sb will reduce feather quality. At least from my studies and reading...
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I believed this has been solved in other breeds, and it can be solved here aswell..
Nica, are there other breeds that have the full tails like oegb, that were self blue? I know of the duccles, but they seem to always have that same problem. I know some folks that are half a dozen...
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You will find very few serious OE Breeders maintaining or showing Self Blue due to feather quality problems common to the variety. Sickles are almost always weak and thin as well other feathers being thin and brittle.
I believed this has been solved in other breeds, and it can be...
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below hens have very pale salmon breast. could this be lack of autosomal red? I don't know
This enhanced salmon breasted he is a Wellsummer hen for comparison (wellsumer breed being suspected for autosomal red)