That sounds awesome!
OK< I was working on my buff Ameraucana project (buff Meredith hens x Pips & Peeps wheaten rooster) to improve egg color (they lay green) and hatched mostly solid buff pullets (All roosters had khaki markings) but one of the pullets has a khaki tail and darker pigment on her face. Well I decided to hatch eggs from this off colored pullet x my blue wheaten rooster and . . SURPRISE, I hatched out 3 CHOCOLATE chicksI have no idea how that happened! Now I have the chocolate bug! I am anxious to see if they feather in solid chocolate.
Here are the 3 chocolate chicks from the buff x wheaten x blue wheaten rooster and one solid buff from chick from the buff x wheaten cross.
If you crossed a legbar rooster to the basic brown/red EE hens, then took the daughters from that and mated them back to a legbar, all of the chicks would be sexable at hatch and be the pattern between a rhodebar and a legbar. I loved the look of the original legbars, not the show style ones. I liked the autosexing, blue eggs, and the crele color but not the combs which is why I made rose combed legbars (cream and light brown). I am aiming for more of a leghorn style legbar which is also why I am making the ambar style birds. With both 'breeds', we will have good layers with the legbars and good dual purpose birds with the ambars. The chicks from this hatch are heavy little monsters, I'd swear they have cornish in them if I didn't know any better, lol
These birds appear to have a lot of white. Not exactly Mottled. What are you doing to correct the pattern? And are they from Joseph Woodiel? I believe he is the go to guy for Mottled Ameraucanas. Sells his eggs at a quite reasonable price. His info is on the ABC directory. Oh , he and Rose Konold are sort of the founders of this pattern.
