Blue,black,white and splash australorp how to get them

[Egg king]

I would like to know what method do you use to get these colors from australorps

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Do you guys have hatcheries in your country? That's where most are coming from here in the US.

We do have what we call an Austra white.. but it's not a pure white Australorp.. it's a cross between white Leghorn and black Australorp.

I know there are also some "sport" whites that have showed upnin certain breeds.

That's where many of us find our birds easily and readily available.

Otherwise.. if we want a color that doesn't exist in a breed.. we breed for it by crossing with something as close as possible and easy to breed back.. for example if you only have black Australorp.. then maybe breeding to a blue or splash Orpington.. then crossing back until we get what we want.

Blue is a recessive diluter gene to black. Splash, is two copies of that gene.. I think. Here's a basic chart for how BBS works..

 

[Iluveggers]

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[Party_Chicken]

Mt healthy sells all of those colors you can get them using blue australorps breeding blue will get you a 50% chance of blue a 25% chance of black and a 25% chance of splash

 

[3KillerBs]

I got my Blue Australorps from Welp, but Ideal and several other hatcheries carry them.

I suppose that originally the first to breed them crossed in Blue Andalusian birds then selected for type.

 

[Egg king]

My cousins have Zulu chickens so a black chick came out with some brown feathers and I think the father is a blue australorp that's why I wanted to know.