Blue Laced Red Orp Project

[Backyard Farm]

Beautiful!!

Good luck with your project!! Please keep posting pics..

Really Beautiful!!

 

[Krys109uk]

Yellow leg color isn't usually hard to breed out. You'll have to hatch heavy and cull deep for many generations but you can do it.

Yellow leg colour wouldn't be difficult if just crossing to a white skin bird. The leg colour bother I was referring to was because blue is usually on an extended black bird; while they would still be carrying the white skin gene they do not usually carry Id (sex linked inhibitor of dermal melanin). While one would be breeding away from the extended black gene but while breeding away from it one needs to keep the Id from the wyandotte & keep the white skin from the Orp......just an extra gene to juggle. You be wanting to watch for the plumage genes & watch for the white skin & Id.

I don't know whether that makes any sense.....it's been a long busy day.​

 

[Reinbeau]

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They are lovely for wannabes, I can't wait until they are 'bes'!