Advice for breeding BBS (Blue Black Splash) genetics! 🐣

[hannahsocal]

I understand! Just want to make sure if I sell chicks or hatching eggs that there actually is a chance of getting all 3.

Anothet I could do is blue rooster with black & splash hens…if I’m correct it would be 50% blue, 25% splash & 25% black?

Best thing to do if you want to sell all 3 varieties is to have 3 separate pens! Blue x blue, black x black, splash x splash. The blue x blue pen will give you black and splash by default that you can add to those pens respectively. That’s what I would recommend at least. You might be selling blue black and splash chicks but if you breed black x splash to get blue, your blues won’t be high quality.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Note: Statistics are just statistics.

Random chance happens -- I've hatched around 40-50 chicks from my flock this year and have had only one splash and a disproportionate number of blacks.

But if I'd hatched 1000 chicks I'd probably have gotten the expected proportions.

I've had similar luck trying to get a silkied Splash Cochin bantam here! I haven't hatched as many, 9 last year and 10 this year that were all or mostly supposed to be from Blue x Blue breedings, but not a single Splash hatched and I've gotten almost as many Blacks as Blues!! I'll be setting up a pen with a Blue male over Blue females next year, so hopefully I'll finally get some Splashes out of them.

Anothet I could do is blue rooster with black & splash hens…if I’m correct it would be 50% blue, 25% splash & 25% black?

Yes, again assuming equal numbers of Black and Splash hens laying about the same number of eggs each.

 

[WallyG74]

My understanding was that there is no difference whatsoever between a black bred from 2 blues and a black bred from 2 blacks.

Blue is the heterozygous and Splash is the homozygous form.

What is the genetic mechanism that would create different sheens?

(I think purple is prettier, but green is the standard).

On the chart, the last combination of splash/splash gives a splash and a (fainter?) splash. Does that mean if you keep breeding those offspring the splash will continue to fade?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yes, it's my understanding that the same amplification effect that causes Blues to gradually get paler over generations also occurs in Splashes when either color is only bred to itself.

 

[3KillerBs]

On the chart, the last combination of splash/splash gives a splash and a (fainter?) splash. Does that mean if you keep breeding those offspring the splash will continue to fade?

I'm not sure.

I don't understand the mechanism for the supposed problem of fading from breeding blue to blue

I don't know why it would happen if you kept selecting your blues for good intensity of color.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I'm honestly not sure of the mechanism behind that effect, either. Maybe @nicalandia would know how it works?

 

[nicalandia]

On the chart, the last combination of splash/splash gives a splash and a (fainter?) splash. Does that mean if you keep breeding those offspring the splash will continue to fade?

No, that's just a misprint or lack of understanding on how Splash works.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

So Splash doesn't gradually get paler like Blue does over generations when bred together?

 

[nicalandia]

So Splash doesn't gradually get paler like Blue does over generations when bred together?

Splash does not get gradually paler over generations.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Good to know, I was definitely mistaken on that one!

Does Splash add to the amplification effect if bred to Blue? In other words, would breeding Blue to Splash make paler Blues faster?