Ever since I started learning about chickens (about 3 years ago) I've really liked the polish breed and the coloring of blue laced red birds. Eventually I plan on breeding to get blue laced red plolish in about 5 or 6 generations of breeding. That plan is to start with golden laced polish roosters and breed them to white crested red or solid red polish hens and white crested blue or solid blue polish hens, whichever are easier to get (I've seen that ideal poultry sells these colors). I would have two separate breeding pens/coops for the two colors (lets call the pen with blue hens pen A and the one with red hens pen B) and I'll merge them near the end.
These are the colors I will order to start the project in the future:
1 or 2 GLP roosters in each pen
4 to 8 hens of each color in each pen.
The first generation of chicks will be mostly just blue, black, and blue laced from pen A and some weirdly "double laced/half spangled" chicks from pen B. I would then take out all of the blue laced hens and switch them out with the hens in pen A and take the hens from pen B and switch them out with the hens in pen B blah, blah, blah... This is what the F1 generation will look like:
After at least two more generations of repeating this process in each pen, I should have some birds that would look like these:
(From pen A) blue laced gold
(From pen B) black laced red
I will then merge the two flocks together and breed roosters from pen A to hens from pen B and vice versa. In the next generation I should get a few blue laced red polish and with a couple more generations of perfecting I should have some pretty good looking blue laced red polish hens and roosters
Questions: does anyone have any suggestions, corrections, or tips? Has anyone ever heard of anyone doing this before? Does my plan sound right? And if the colors I start with are white crested blues and white crested reds, then how will that effect the offspring?-will the product be white crested blue laced red polish??
(P.s. this probably won't happen for a long time, so feel free to steal my idea/plan and do this yourself if you want. I think blue laced red polish should really become a "thing".)
These are the colors I will order to start the project in the future:
1 or 2 GLP roosters in each pen
4 to 8 hens of each color in each pen.
The first generation of chicks will be mostly just blue, black, and blue laced from pen A and some weirdly "double laced/half spangled" chicks from pen B. I would then take out all of the blue laced hens and switch them out with the hens in pen A and take the hens from pen B and switch them out with the hens in pen B blah, blah, blah... This is what the F1 generation will look like:
After at least two more generations of repeating this process in each pen, I should have some birds that would look like these:
(From pen A) blue laced gold
(From pen B) black laced red
I will then merge the two flocks together and breed roosters from pen A to hens from pen B and vice versa. In the next generation I should get a few blue laced red polish and with a couple more generations of perfecting I should have some pretty good looking blue laced red polish hens and roosters
Questions: does anyone have any suggestions, corrections, or tips? Has anyone ever heard of anyone doing this before? Does my plan sound right? And if the colors I start with are white crested blues and white crested reds, then how will that effect the offspring?-will the product be white crested blue laced red polish??
(P.s. this probably won't happen for a long time, so feel free to steal my idea/plan and do this yourself if you want. I think blue laced red polish should really become a "thing".)
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