I always see F1 males that are single barred and never see true breeding double barred males... Are theses birds being used this way in some sort of Double mating program only ?
"Nicalandia..."
"What besides finding a silver ameraucana line that has great blue egg color" what would be the best route to making the egg color a better blue?
Again thanks a ton for all your help...
Nicalandia...
What besides finding a silver ameraucana line that has great blue egg color what would be the best route to making the egg color a better blue?
Again thanks a ton for all your help...
Hi thanks a ton for your reply... but I am looking for more than a history of the breed... I would like to know what breed, breeds were used to create Silvers.... where did the blue, where did the silver genes come from to get silver ameraucanas.... are they silver duckwing > silver quail... ...
Hi hope all are doing good.... Two questions..... Where did the blue egg laying gene come from in Silvers ? Where did the silver gene come from in Silvers... ?>
Thanks a ton
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Take a look at this from "Animal Breeding" by A. L. Hagedoorn if you are serious about doing this the right way. Most people do not understand or take into account that Punnet and Peace were not the only ones on the block working in this...
Once you had a male like the one in the pic, you would have to keep breeding back to pure RIR females... as that male is single barred and hence unpure for barring,,,, He would not breed pure... it would be sorta like breeding blue....
Hi hope all are doing great.. If you had a Rhode Island Red Judge look at these males and females... what would he say to you about type... not color and anything else just body type... I must be wrong but what I have read about the breeding of Rhodebars is they are nothing more than a Rhode...
Hi... hope you are doing great... what I have been told and read in many different places over the years is you need to get a male from a breeder not a big big name hatchery.. that is the only way you will get a male that is calm... or one way...
hope this helped