How big is he? I’m getting ready to make a 3 way cross like this. I’ll be putting a blue ameraucana x rir rooster over some black jersey giant hens when they start laying.
I know. I’m trying to make the impossible happen. The legbar is going to add so much blue that the ee birds don’t have but it may get bred back out as i try to asd size
Barring would be fine. I’m not as worried about feathers as i am size and egg color. I’m really just building a large breed easter egger. I just bought a couple of fairly large “ameraucana” hens that are really easter eggers but I didn’t bother arguing. They are kind of bufff partidge and one...
I plan on going with pea combs since blue eggs are the goal. Once i true up what i want i plan on out crossing tona large breed then picking hens from that cross to breed back to roosters from my crossed birds and more or less choose for size and pea combs from there. Blue or black orpington...
I’m wondering what happes when i put the barring gene in the mix. I think i need to actually put one of my legbar roosters over my dominque hen and use the blue roosters over the hens from that cross.
I crossed a splash ameraucana rooster to rir hens and got all blue off spring. If i cross a cream legbar rooster over the blue hens what should i expect in the following generation? Other details are that all offspring from the first cross got the pea comb and only a couple of roosters had and...