Blue laced red polish project questions and discussion

[ColtHandorf]

You'd start with Gold-laced and breed in birds with Blue and Mahogany.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

You'd start with Gold-laced and breed in birds with Blue and Mahogany.

Well of course, but how would this invert where the blue is? How do you change the blue lacing to the outside instead of having blue replace the black on the GLB?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well of course, but how would this invert where the blue is? How do you change the blue lacing to the outside instead of having blue replace the black on the GLB?

I'd imagine breed a blue to a black laced color until you got a blue lace

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

It seems like it would be simple enough to get Red Laced Blue (I thought good lines of GLB Polish actually did carry Mahogany modifiers)... but how do you switch it?

I’ve never seen a true-breeding variety with gold lacing on the outside of the feather, do you have a picture of these polish?

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I’ve never seen a true-breeding variety with gold lacing on the outside of the feather, do you have a picture of these polish?

Omg I was thinking polish had the gold on the outside with a black ground color. Like i said... never paid much attention to the variety!

It should be just a matter of crossing white crested blue with Gold laced, then. Breed for increasing the mahogany modifiers I strongly suspect are already in the breed, and breed out the white crest. (No easy feat, if you ask my Houdans, but probably still preferable to introducing another breed to bring in the blue.)

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

It should be just a matter of crossing white crested blue with Gold laced, then. Breed for increasing the mahogany modifiers I strongly suspect are already in the breed, and breed out the white crest. (No easy feat, if you ask my Houdans, but probably still preferable to introducing another breed to bring in the blue.)

Actually... I might try an Andalusian hen for this project. Crests and v-combs come back pretty quickly, and you wouldn't have to battle the white spot on the head for ever. I'd run the Andalusian and the WCB simultaneously with a gold laced cock and see who got there first.