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That's Buck Oakes. That does clarify things. I love chicken genetics now I get to learn about Muscovy! Can't wait until next spring when I can get some ducklings!

It is hard to tell from pic but sounds pretty. I need to get some blue muscovies! Need to get the pen done first though. hope it's a mild winter.

Thanks again for your help! That link was what I was looking for!

Thank you. that helps clarify that. Now blue fawn, that's a combination of blue and recessive chocolate? and chocolate is a sex linked gene right? Then lilac is a combination of chocolate and lavender?

I recently fell in love with pied muscovies and had some questions about them. Is the pied markings dominant? and it seems that some have white heads with coloring and white in the bodies while other have colored heads like black, blue, chocolate, are the while heads still considered pied...

Thanks, that does help. I got a black orpington rooster from a friend that is big and beautiful and very nice temperament but 7 points. I think I will try breeding him to my lavenders. they have 4 and 5 points so maybe I'll get ssome nice split lav roosters from that. Worth a try anyway.

I have a question about breeding for points on combs. this is the closest thread subject I've found so hope someone can answer this. If you use a rooster that has 8 points and you want to breed for 5 what are the chances of getting 5 points? is multiple points dominant? or if you breed to...

Another option, if I can find a nice silver laced roo to breed to my friend's blue laced. will some of the offspring by blue laced others silver? I talked with her last night and we may try that option to see what we get. My goal is to get a blue bird with the lighter silver lacing instead of...

Ok, so if I go the route of breeding silver laced to blue then I would end up with mostly solid birds. If I bred the F1 blue birds to silver laced would some of those offspring be laced at least to some extecnt? If I go the route of silver laced x BLRWs I would have to work on breeding the red...

Oh and to as what kind of straw....wheat straw is finer than oat. It doesn't stay in the bales as well as oat but it's softer and nicer to work with. It can be slippery too. I guess becase it's finer. So, if you want it to stay in bales longer, get oat. if you want to stuff it between...

First off you would want to use straw not hay. Hay is usually grass or Alf alpha that is used for feed. I give my chickens, ducks and turkeys Alf alpha hay during the winter for extra greens and protein. They love it! Just sweep up the chaff (loose stuff) and throw it in the pens. I do use...

You know, I was just ouside today looking at the oops, thinking of how I could add more lighting. I do use red heat lamp bulbs in the bantam coop when it gots below freezing, but was thinking of using a white bulb for more light. Then I read the last post. You're right, nature knows best.

Yes, Makomd, that looks similar to my friend's birds. She has hens she got from a lady that got them from somewhere else she can't remember where. They were supposed to be BLRW which 3 turned out to be but then 3 turned out a blue with charcoal lacing but then one was like a blue with silver...

Thank you! I've played with the chicken calculator but don't fully understand it yet. I figure that is a project to work on for winter. I'm not worried about showing, I just like breeding for pets, eggs, backyard flocks. Plus I'm addicted to hatching eggs and it gives me a goal to work...

My friend has some blue laced wyandottes that are stunning. We want to get more of these but not sure what breeding goes into them. If we bred a silver laced male to a blue female then back to....not sure maybe siblings? could we get blue laced? I read a while back that breeding blue laced red...

Oh thank you tadkerson that simplifies things. I thought Lemon was a pale buff or straw color. I think I can handle this one then. Thanks so much! I thought I understood the blue gene pretty well, but apparently not. I wish I could find a good chicken color genetics book to study.

Well, after reading this article https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/genetics-an-attempt-at-simplifying-the-complex you have to have an inhibitor of gold gene to get lemon. But where does that gene come from? I have read too many threads and articles that now I don't know where I read what...

I've been wanting to breed BLRW. I've been searching for info on them. This article helps a great deal! Thanks so much!

I want to breed to get a lemon Orpington. I have blue, splash, lavender, and buff. If I bred buff to splash could I eventually get lemon? Does the splash dilution gene affect the buff color? I understand the splash is recessive and won’t show in the first generation. I also know buff is a...

Hi, I need help in understanding color genetics. I am trying to breed some blue laced Wyandotte’s. I have blue laced red hens and want to put them with a silver laced rooster. I think I understand I can get 50% blue laced hen and 50% silver hens but the roos will be buff laced and not breed...