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Your first generation chicks out of that cross should be solid black, perhaps with some red color leakage in the saddle, hackle, and shoulder feathers when they are adults. Those solid black chicks will be "split" for the lavender gene. This means that each one will possess one copy of the...

I agree with SilkiesForEver. Blue Red.

I think I would breed her to the Chocolate rooster first. You should know in the first hatch if you are dealing with the sex-linked Chocolate gene, or the dun gene.

She is Splash. You could breed her with a Blue to get 50% Blue and 50% Splash chicks, or a Splash to get 100% Splash chicks - though the color tends to wash out over time in Splash to Splash breedings. If you take her to your Lemon Blue rooster you will have 50% Blue and 50% Splash chicks with...

I may be wrong and perhaps one of the more experienced breeders on the thread could correct me here, but I believe that Pyles are one of those varieties in which you have to have to breed separately for males or females. Something about how breeding for correctly colored individuals of one...

Looks vaguely Blue/Fawn Silver Duckwing-ish to me.

Double post. I'm sorry.

I understand what you are saying about the blue color. I was just wondering what happens with the hackles in the F1 chicks since one of the parents is solid-colored. Not a big deal - just curiosity.

I checked the color calculator and what you get will depend on which way the breeding goes. A Crele rooster over a Blue hen will yield barred birds which will probably have some red leakage, about half will be blue barred and half black barred. I don't think they will be correctly colored to...

Looks like a Silver Duckwing cockerel on the first one, and maybe a Ginger Red on the second.

The two more reddish colored striped ones look like Black Breasted Red OEGBs and the lighter colored striped one looks like it could be a Silver Duckwing OEGB.

I would. If you have the pen space and the time it may end up being a rewarding experience.

You will end up with sexlinks of sorts in the F1 generation - males would have barring and females should be solid, though there could be some red/gold leakage on the males' hackles, saddles, and shoulders. If you cross the F1s with each other about a quarter of the F2s could be Birchens or...

I really like how the color in his hackles fades on the way down. He almost looks like he was painted with an airbrush.

Maybe a Blue Red/Lemon Blue mix?

Whoops... Too late.

No prob. Hopefully someone will have a fairly concrete answer for what kind of White is on your hen. Once you know what genes you are dealing with it makes it all a lot easier to figure out, especially if you have a good color calculator to work with. I like this one...

If she is heterozygous for dominant white (one copy of the gene), then then about half of the chicks would be Whites carrying Black or Blue and the other half would be Blacks and Blues. If she is homozygous for dominant white (two copies of the gene) then all of the resulting offspring will be...

If your pullet is a recessive white then the offspring will either be black or blue, and will be carrying the recessive white gene.

"Dixie" looks like some sort of crossbred to me. I'm still quite new at this, but I am having a very hard time seeing any characteristics that could indicate a particular breed.