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BlueBaby said:
I'm trying to do that here too, I only have the 4 NN hen's with the bibs to work with.
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This is the boy I'm gonna use for the EE/NN experiment. He hatched from a blue egg from the hen I got from you. I wanna put him with a black Ameraucana I have, but she hasn't even started laying yet. Looks like she's getting close, though. I'm also gonna throw in at least one of the Wheaten Marans for olive eggs. I could toss in Carmella, my only totally clean necked girl, and maybe the brown partridge as she's almost clean necked, and see what I get... As long as he inherited the blue egg gene, like I suspect, they should make light green egg layers.
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BlueBaby said:
They should make nice pattern's in the feathering on the bodies though, wouldn't they?
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The NN gene has no bearing on the color or pattern on the feathers. That's like wondering what colors you would get if you crossed a straight combed bird with a Barnevelder. If you're asking about crossing one of your Bresse cross with a Barnevelder, that has more more answers. The Bresse seem to carry both pencilling and asian partridge, which is what a Barnevelder is, so you would get more of that with various colors. If the Bresse cross happens to carry a copy of the NN gene, then you might get a few with NN's.
 
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Hello @Gallo del Cielo!! How is everything growing? That amazing grass blend - did it reseed? Oh and I've killed a few purple passion flower plants - guess my area here is Eloy is just not really the place for them. I met Silvia and @City farm a few weeks ago here for a giant sale the Avacado Nursery was having. Quite fun actually - they had more knowledge about plants and such in the little finger than I have in my whole hand. I learned quite a bit from them AND stole seeds from the seed box. Glad to see you here. Experience is a good thing.
 
Okay - now on to another subject. I have a tree dweller girl - unfortunately I have a few of them, long story, can't fix it - that seems to have gotten mesquite sap on her back. It looks as though she is done molting. What can I use that won't burn her? She's a skinny red SexLink, always laying even in the heat and molt. I will have to catch her because she does not want to be touched by people even though she will talk with me and eat out of my hand. At first I thought she had been bitten or some type of thing and it was dried blood but realized there wasn't a wound or anything. I wonder what else these 30 hens have up their sleeve to throw at me!
@BlueBaby have you asked @DesertChic about a clean necked NN roo? She does have some beauties.
 
cactusrota said:
The NN gene has no bearing on the color or pattern on the feathers. That's like wondering what colors you would get if you crossed a straight combed bird with a Barnevelder. If you're asking about crossing one of your Bresse cross with a Barnevelder, that has more more answers. The Bresse seem to carry both pencilling and asian partridge, which is what a Barnevelder is, so you would get more of that with various colors. If the Bresse cross happens to carry a copy of the NN gene, then you might get a few with NN's.
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Thank's for the info. Genetics with them can be interesting, but confusing. I bet they would look nice in feathering though.
 

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