Andres color?

[Gardenguy68]

Anyone? icant figureout what he is. He`s a good boy. Hes from the blues egg and hes got one hen that lays a beautiful blue also...shes self blue....the other hens are black and clean faced....my blue girl is double tufted like the roo but her tuftes are sparce...what do you guys think? my black hens lay greener eggs but id rather push for color. should i even worry about hatching?

 

[Whittni]

If you are able to post or link a picture I'm sure everyone would be happy to help you.

 

[Gardenguy68]

here he is

 

[farmerChef]

splash

 

[Gardenguy68]

cool name...i should have named him gordon...thanks chef

 

[Gardenguy68]

does that mean hes a mutt...so far his babies have been greys and white. he messed around with a red sexkink and i got two cool looking dark grey double tufted tail roos...mongrel birds but beautiful...does the egg color from which he came say anything about what shade his babies would push through? ive got two black rumpless clean head hens but they lay kinda green eggs and that not what i want...would his blue history trump thier green? thanks for your help guys....8

 

[farmerChef]

No, he's like a dilute blue, blue breeding is different, like usuing a punnett square (I think that what's their called)

Blue x black = 50% blue, 50% black
blue x blue= 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash
blue x splash= 50% blue, 50% splash
splash x black= 100% blue
splash x splash= 100% splash
black x black= 100%

 

[Gardenguy68]

So what might i do with these two rumpless black hens that lay green?

 

[Gardenguy68]

they are shaped beautifuly but no tufts and kinda muddy whitish greenish eggs....

 

[farmerChef]

If you have Andre over those hens, all their chicks should be blue. Now as for egg color, I think you could find better help on the Araucana thread. Just because they are pure, doesn't mean they will automaticly lay bright blue eggs. Its just one of the many traits breeders may or maynot select for. The only Araucana I have right now is a clean faced rooster . The tufted gene is also lethal, if a chick gets a copy of the gene from both parents, it will die, usually late in incubation I think. I think most breeders breed clean faced to tufted, or something like that.