Breeding back for Olive Eggers !how to ?

[Judykaymayes]

If you start with Black Copper Marans rooster and breed to Ameraucana hens the you want to keep the offspring to breed for f 2 chicks how to you breed the chicks back to their parents or get new f 2 chick to breed back to.

 

[NatJ]

If you start with Black Copper Marans rooster and breed to Ameraucana hens the you want to keep the offspring to breed for f 2 chicks how to you breed the chicks back to their parents or get new f 2 chick to breed back to.

You can breed back to Marans (the father or an unrelated Marans). This would give about a 50/50 split of ones that lay olive eggs and ones that lay brown eggs. The olive and the brown should be pretty dark if you do this.

You can breed back to Ameraucana (the mother or an unrelated Ameraucana). If the Ameraucana has 2 blue egg genes, then all chicks will lay green eggs. Chicks from this cross will lay eggs that are a lighter green, as compared with chicks that have a Marans parent. If the Ameraucana has only 1 blue egg gene, then 3/4 of chicks will lay green eggs and the other 1/4 will lay brown eggs. Again, the shade of green and brown will be lighter for these chicks than for ones that have a Marans parent.

You can breed F1 chicks to each other. That should give about 3/4 of daughters laying green eggs, and the other 1/4 laying brown eggs. The greens and the browns will have a variety of shades, ranging from very dark to medium and maybe some very light ones.

You could also breed F1 chicks to Olive Eggers from another source, which will probably give results about the same as breeding F1 chicks to each other but avoids inbreeding. I don't expect the inbreeding to be a big problem, but avoiding it will not be a problem either.

 

[Judykaymayes]

You can breed back to Marans (the father or an unrelated one Marans). This would give about a 50/50 split of ones that lay olive eggs and ones that lay brown eggs. The olive and the brown should be pretty dark if you do this.

You can breed back to Ameraucana (the mother or an unrelated Ameraucana). If the Ameraucana has 2 blue egg genes, then all chicks will lay green eggs. Chicks from this cross will lay eggs that are a lighter green, as compared with chicks that have a Marans parent. If the Ameraucana has only 1 blue egg gene, then 3/4 of chicks will lay green eggs and the other 1/4 will lay brown eggs. Again, the shade of green and brown will be lighter for these chicks than for ones that have a Marans parent.

You can breed F1 chicks to each other. That should give about 3/4 of daughters laying green eggs, and the other 1/4 laying brown eggs. The greens and the browns will have a variety of shades, ranging from very dark to medium and maybe some very light ones.

You could also breed F1 chicks to Olive Eggers from another source, which will probably give results about the same as breeding F1 chicks to each other but avoids inbreeding. I don't expect the inbreeding to be a big problem, but avoiding it will not be a problem either.

Sounds like very good advice .Thank you very much.