BLRW x ________ ... Which would you choose?!

[BarredCometLaced]

Hey Chicken Genetics Experts! I have a beautiful BLRW rooster and an incubator that is rearing to go. He currently lives with 16 hens, and I fear that fertility is low because he is picking favorites.

I am going to separate out Mr. Roo and was wondering what I can expect from the following crosses:

BLRW Rooster x Cream Legbar Hens (I've never seen him give the legbars much attention, but I am hoping that separating him will help point him in the right direction... I'd love to get a green egg layer out of this)

BLRW Rooster x Salmon Faverolles (This his girlfriend, and if he is fertile, I know I can get some fertilized eggs out of this girl... don't mind her lack of toes --- don't know how that happened!)

BLRW Rooster x GLW Hen (This girl does not have typical lacing at all... I find it beautiful)

I am curious as to what I can expect both in regards to feather color and egg color. Has anyone hatched eggs from these types of crosses before?

Thanks everyone!

 

[NatJ]

Comb type: rose comb for all offspring (because of the rooster's comb), unless he's secretly carrying the gene for single comb, in which case you'll get some single combs too.

Egg color: green from daughters of the Legbar (blue from her plus brown from him equals green eggs). Brown from daughters of the other hens.

Feather color: I think they will all have some pattern of brown with black markings--various shades of brown and arrangements of black. I also think you'll have quite a few that look actually laced (because of the rooster), but I'm not quite sure how those genes interact with some of the ones the hens have. Sons of the legbar may show white barring, but none of the others should.

About fertility: each hen only needs to mate about once or twice a week to lay fertile eggs all the time, so you may not need to separate the rooster with a smaller number of hens. (Or you could split the hens into two groups, and move the rooster back and forth every few days: with fewer in each group, he's more likely to get around to all of them.)

 

[nicalandia]

Homozygous Rosecomb Roosters have slow fertility due to sperm motility and this will be aggravated if he is not mounting other hens..

The Rose-comb Mutation in Chickens Constitutes a Structural Rearrangement Causing Both Altered Comb Morphology and Defective Sperm Motility

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3386170/

 

[Poultrybonkers]

i was about to say your rooster isnt a blue laced red until i forgot black laced red lol