Best way to introduce buff color into a flock? (New chicken breed)

[Enigmatic Gale]

Emma, who's full of energy and at the bottom of the pecking order for some reason.

She's true to type and came with Shinji's batch. I'll probably wait for her to lay an egg to decide what to do with Shinji. That's the hard part of blue egg roosters I guess lol

Emma would be paired with Chesterfield to implement the gold base and blue egg color.

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

We also have Sandy, Chesterfield's other sister.

She has a better buff color to her but a shorter tail than Hugh Mungus. I'm really tempted to pair her with Chesterfield to make the buff colored Yokohama, absent the blue egg gene.

We'll see

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

Fye's sister, which is pending her name.

Beautiful long tail! This is one of the Phoenix-Yokohama crosses that turned out gold based. I really want to mate her with Chesterfield but her sister, Fye, has a nicer color to her but a shorter tail ( for now). She'll probably be paired with Shinji, if we decide to keep him.

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

Here we have Fye, our beautiful girl.

She's definitely going into Chesterfield's pen and I can't wait to see what her offspring will look like!

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

Last but not least, we have our blue egg laying long tails that we bought. The male is the yellowish chick in the past photos that hatched from a blue egg and the female is the most trusting of the younger flock. We have 3 females and 2 males. Both males hatched from a blue egg. The females all came out with the wild type pattern and I know one of them hatched from a blue egg, I just forgot to mark which one. The good thing is that all the females will lay eggs lol

 

[Alicia Manolas]

We also have Sandy, Chesterfield's other sister.

She has a better buff color to her but a shorter tail than Hugh Mungus. I'm really tempted to pair her with Chesterfield to make the buff colored Yokohama, absent the blue egg gene.

We'll see

I'd do this as well, as a back up line in case of accidents with the blue egg primary line! You would get a nigh on perfect buff out of those two, then you could put their progeny over someones pet project blue-egg Old English Game project, full or bantam. Either would give you type without Aras muff etc, and it only takes a single generation to put tail length into OEG genetics if boosted with Phoenix or Yoko genes.

 

[Alicia Manolas]

Last but not least, we have our blue egg laying long tails that we bought. The male is the yellowish chick in the past photos that hatched from a blue egg and the female is the most trusting of the younger flock. We have 3 females and 2 males. Both males hatched from a blue egg. The females all came out with the wild type pattern and I know one of them hatched from a blue egg, I just forgot to mark which one. The good thing is that all the females will lay eggs lol

With these 'wild type' ones, I can see one Dark Legged Partridge hen, and one Yellow legged Black Red Wheaten cock, which technically can be cross bred but you might not want that. Did they send you a Dark Legged Partridge cock? The matching pair to the wild green/gold looking hen (Dark Legged Partridge) it would be Darker red around the hackles than the Wheaten cock, and have dark legs?

BTW The matching hen for that rooster pictured is a Black tail Wheaten hen.

It can muck up your breeding/planning something chronic when you find out later you haven't been working with what you thought you had!

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

With these 'wild type' ones, I can see one Dark Legged Partridge hen, and one Yellow legged Black Red Wheaten cock, which technically can be cross bred but you might not want that. Did they send you a Dark Legged Partridge cock? The matching pair to the wild green/gold looking hen (Dark Legged Partridge) it would be Darker red around the hackles than the Wheaten cock, and have dark legs?

BTW The matching hen for that rooster pictured is a Black tail Wheaten hen.

It can muck up your breeding/planning something chronic when you find out later you haven't been working with what you thought you had!

I went back outside to take a picture of the rest of the "wild type" flock. I know that their genetics are probably all over the place as the flock they came from had all the long tails, (Yokos, Phoenix, Cubalaya and sumatras), together with some amerucanas.

Here's a photo of the 4 chicks that hatched from the blue eggs. The 4 on the left.

And a photo of what the others look like now

The blue male has some leakage coming out.

I'm all ears for any suggestions btw

 

[NatJ]

I'll probably wait for her to lay an egg to decide what to do with Shinji. That's the hard part of blue egg roosters I guess lol

There is a genetic test available for the blue egg gene (it's relatively new.)

It's not particularly cheap, but for a rooster it might be cheaper to test him than to raise a bunch of his daughters to see what color eggs they lay.

https://orders.iqbirdtesting.com/product/blue-egg-gene-with-feathers-sample/

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

There is a genetic test available for the blue egg gene (it's relatively new.)

It's not particularly cheap, but for a rooster it might be cheaper to test him than to raise a bunch of his daughters to see what color eggs they lay.

https://orders.iqbirdtesting.com/product/blue-egg-gene-with-feathers-sample/

Wow! That's interesting!

I'll definitely check it out and keep it in mind for a really promising rooster