Australorps breed Thread

[bruceha2000]

I wouldn't think (but I know not much) that cross would come up with a mostly white bird. The Orp would be tan and the BA would be black with some white, the white disappearing through the juvenile moults.

What other birds does your friend have?

 

[Turk Raphael]

I wouldn't think (but I know not much) that cross would come up with a mostly white bird. The Orp would be tan and the BA would be black with some white, the white disappearing through the juvenile moults.

What other birds does your friend have?

Perhaps the friend has White Leghorns? The bird looks very much like a Austra-White...excellent bird for egg production and can be used to cross with genuine meat birds with excellent offspring.

 

[Chicken5555]

I wouldn't think (but I know not much) that cross would come up with a mostly white bird. The Orp would be tan and the BA would be black with some white, the white disappearing through the juvenile moults.

What other birds does your friend have?

Perhaps the friend has White Leghorns? The bird looks very much like a Austra-White...excellent bird for egg production and can be used to cross with genuine meat birds with excellent offspring.

@bruceha2000 She also has barred rock hens and BB Reds.
@Turk Raphael I see what you mean. The resemblance is striking, but my friend has no leghorns.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Do you think that the chick's coloring could have come from a black australorp rooster + buff orpington hen ?? Thank you
A splash has more splash of colors ..
Kurt can you show us your splash .?
It could come from a mix ..
I have a Aussie Roo...I have white chicks with black spots
Hens are Rir , comet and plymouth white rocks


this is Marker ...

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

A splash Australorp from my Rattlesnake Ridge Line.

Pullet and a Cockerel

Check out my profile for more pics of Blue, Black and Splash Australorps.
Kurt

 

[Chicken5555]

Kurt, your chickens are absolutely lovely. If I am ever in the market for splash Australorps I know where to go!

 

[MonicainAZ]

A splash has more splash of colors ..
Kurt can you show us your splash .?
It could come from a mix ..
I have a Aussie Roo...I have white chicks with black spots
Hens are Rir , comet and plymouth white rocks


this is Marker ...

What I have had explained to me by someone else is that a bird that is marked like this has dominant white covering the black.

This kind of dominant white inhibits black, but not red. SOOOO... if you have a red chicken (RIR, comet, or buff orpington, all red/yellow color gene family) with dominant white, you won't see the white, you'll see the red.

Breed that to a black chicken and the black will cover the red...but then the dominant white will cover the black (mostly, some leaks through).

So yes, this pattern is typical of many chicks with a black parent and a buff/red parent from what I understand. It's a little tricky because you can't really know what the white genes are underneath the red, since you can't see them. Apparently sometimes they are there and sometimes not.

It's like rock paper scissors, LOL

http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm
Read the end part about "Color inhibition: white, mottled/pied and sexlinked barring ..."

 

[Chicken5555]

@MonicainAZ
Thank you for that explanation! Let me know if I got this....

dominant white + red/buff = dominant white carrier (F1)

F1 + black = splash look-a-like, but not really splash. Only half the kids would look like this though because the F1 parent has only one copy of the dominant white gene.

 

[appps]

@MonicainAZ
 


F1 + black = splash look-a-like, but not really splash.

A Splash isn't black and white so not really a splash look alike either. Splash are more a soft grey or powder blue if that makes sense, they have no white at all.

I would say F1 + black = Dalmatian look alike lol

 

[ronott1]

They don't really look like a splash either, they have more Dalmatian colouring. Splash isn't black and white.

Yes!

Splash is a part of Blue, Black splash genetics.