Breed arrangements. HELP!

[Feather queen]

I am currently working on separating my mixed flock into there breeds, but I have a few that I don't know were to put.

Free Rangers: silkie x B australorp roo
Isa browns, sussex and cross breeds

Silkie Flock
SS Hamburg Flock
Gl/SDL Barnevelder flock: SDLB roo

Other hens;
3x lavender Auracana (Im thinking barnevelder flock, for olive eggers?)
2x Exchequer Leghorn
Silkie x ? - Bantam ( to small for Free range flock roo)
Silkie x Hamburg- Bantam (to small for the FR flock roo, injury as a chick means that sometimes she can't walk properly, so no big roos)

Which flock should I put them in? For the most unique colours?
What would possible offspring look like? Genes behind it?

I can post pictures

Thanks in advance,
Feather Queen

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Pictured would help, especially of the mixes. What do you classify as unique colors? Colors that are different than the parents or?

 

[Feather queen]

Pictured would help, especially of the mixes. What do you classify as unique colors? Colors that are different than the parents or?

I am currently not home but I definitely will ASAP, yeah I suppose so, sorry for not being very helpful.

 

[Feather queen]

Pic1# Free Rangers Flock Roo
Pic 2# SS Hamburg Flock Roo
Pic 3# SDL Barneverlder Roo
Pic 4# Silkie Roo
Pic 5# Silkie Cockeral 1
Pic 6# Silkie Cockeral 2
Pics 7-8# Exchequer Leghorn Roo
(Not sure if i should keep him)

 

[Feather queen]

Pic 1-2# Aurcana , possible roo?
Pic 3-4# Aurcana 2
Pic 5-6# Aurcana 3
Pic 7-8# Leghorns
Pic 9-10# silkie x ?
Pic 11-12# silkie x Hamburg
Pic 13-14# S x H, injured

All are pullets except for both silkie x Hamburg's, 1 is laying 1 is about to.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

If you want olive eggers, I see no issue with putting the araucanas with the barnevelders. You could also add the leghorns in with the araucanas get more blue egg layers. I don’t think your araucana is a cockerel, though #3 does look like a mix since she has a single comb and no crest.

As for colors, you may see a lot of mostly black chicks in the first generation. Both lavender and mottling (gene responsible for the white in exchequer) are recessive. It also looks like you have several paints (the white silkie rooster and silkie mixes). Paint is dominant white and black, and dominant white, as the name suggests, mostly covers other colors unless it’s crossed to something mostly red.

If you want offspring with different colors than the parents (so not solid blue (like some of your silkie mixes), buff/red, spangled, paint, or double laced) I would cross your birds with more complicated patterns (spangled, double laced, etc) to the ones with more simple patterns (exchequer, blue, etc) or cross the more patterned ones together. If you have a question on what a specific cross will look like let me know.

 

[Feather queen]

Thank you so much, I find this all so interesting , I only have one question what breeds should I cross the Aurcana's too to get easter eggers?, what would they look like?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thank you so much, I find this all so interesting , I only have one question what breeds should I cross the Aurcana's too to get easter eggers?, what would they look like?

You could cross the araucanas to any breed to get Easter eggers. Assuming they have two copies of the blue egg shell gene, they should always produce offspring that lay blue, green, or olive eggs. They would have different feather colors depending on the cross, but for the most part they should be solid black/blue or black with silver or gold leakage (or paint if you cross to one of the paints).

 

[Feather queen]

You could cross the araucanas to any breed to get Easter eggers. Assuming they have two copies of the blue egg shell gene, they should always produce offspring that lay blue, green, or olive eggs. They would have different feather colors depending on the cross, but for the most part they should be solid black/blue or black with silver or gold leakage (or paint if you cross to one of the paints).

Thank you so much!

 

[Feather queen]

What would the Auracana x Barnevelders look like?