Alicia Manolas
Chirping
- Feb 24, 2022
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The earlier photo of the Dark legged Partridge colouration hen with the willow green legs, (Ive circled her in blue) is definitely your strongest, judging colour wise, show quality colour. You can create a Dark legged Partridge male by pairing her with the light legged cock and playing the numbers game, you will get more dark legs than light, then breed dark male legged offspring back to her, and to dark legged offspring next gen, to get your foundation line of Dark leggeds going.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
To get your Light Legged Partridges AND your Black Breasted Reds and Wheatens lines both going, take the Light Legged Partridge Hen with the not as high quality coat colour but fantastic legs (circled in purple), and put her in with the yellow leg - Light Legged Black Red, cock.
Half the chicks will be a good foundation line start of Light Legged Partridges and the other half, depending on the roosters genetic purity, should come out Blackred cocks & Black Tail Wheaten hens.
As to Blues, if you are having trouble with breeding blue, ANYTHING blue together, of the same breed, will keep the genes going, even if it's a Self Blue paired with a Blue Red, you can always split them up later.
With regards to blue eggs, having a pet project with them myself, creating a breed, I wish I'd had your American option of just paying $25 bucks and getting immediate answers from a good laboratory! I'd not breed out nearly so many generations if I could have used science and $25 to save ten times that in feed, time, effort, energy, cagespace... the usual blood, sweat and tears!
Long tails and Sumatrans are still so exceedingly rare and expensive here in Australia, sigh.
Question... why the white rooster?