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  1. Rancho Bravo

    Post Phoenix Pics Please

    Thanks! I am quite fond of this guy. Sorry to hear that you didn't get any whites, they are lovely.
  2. Rancho Bravo

    Post Phoenix Pics Please

  3. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

    I am guessing you would out cross to a lavender bird with black Jerseys giving 100% black offspring carrying Lav. Then you could breed the F1s back to the Lav parent giving you 50% Lav birds, 25% Black, 25% Black carrying Lav. Take those Lav birds and perhaps begin working on type, which I think...
  4. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

    Interesting. Do you know why that is?
  5. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

    Are you saying that most black birds based on E extended black have slow, inhibited, or stunted feather growth?
  6. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

  7. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

    Not all black chickens are based on E, and E alone does not a black chicken make.
  8. Rancho Bravo

    Genetic Make Up of Jersey Giant

    Does anyone know how the black of Black Jersey Giants is constructed genetically?
  9. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    I do understand that my sample size is small, as I mentioned in the original post. I was just wondering if there was anything else at play that I wasn't aware of that would make the chicks black. Coincidentally, does anyone know how the black of Jersey Giants is constructed genetically?
  10. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    Lav is separate from BBS, right? So in this cross I should still get 50% black and 50% blue and if the hen carries Lav, then some of the offspring would also be carriers. (unless of course the roo also carries Lav, in which case I would get 25% Lav, 50% carriers, and 25% non-Lav). Am I thinking...
  11. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    Thank you for clearing up the BBS question! I'm familiar with the genetics, just not the abbreviations yet! I've had a pretty good hatch rate. Out of 8 eggs I got 7 hatched chicks and 1 infertile egg. I have more due to hatch pretty soon, so we'll see. There better be some blues this time...
  12. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    This is definitely a possibility - that there are blue chicks that are very dark and appear to be black. I guess I'll know when they feather in. Right now they all look jet black and are indistinguishable from the pure black jersey chicks.
  13. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    How would a splash be produced from a Blue x Black cross? How can you be sure the hen is not Lav?
  14. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    What is "BBS"? The lavender thought also crossed my mind, but she is so dark! Are lavenders sometimes that dark? I need no excuses to keep hatching chicks! It's what I live for!
  15. Rancho Bravo

    Blue x Black = Black??

    I have bred a blue hen (orpington) to a black rooster (Jersey Giant) and hatched out 7 chicks thus far, all of which have been jet black. I know my sample size is small as of now but I'm just wondering if there is something I don't know about that would cause a cross like this to produce 100%...
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