Breeding Mille Fleur d'Uccle and OEGBs

[Snowbelt]

I have a Mille Fleur d'Uccle rooster and three OEGB Mille Fleur hens. If I breed them, what can I expect to see with colors, leg feathering, etc.?

 

[Amer]

You will get birds with feathered legs but without vulture hocks (the long stiff feathers growing from the hock joint) and if he is homozygous for the beard gene they will have beards. If he is heterozygous for that gene half of them will have beards.

 

[Amer]

Color will be mille fleur.

 

[Snowbelt]

Thank you so much! The d'Uccle rooster is beardless and has darker colors (including chestnut/mahogany) than the lighter OEGB hens, so the resulting color will be interesting.

 

[Amer]

Thank you so much! The d'Uccle rooster is beardless and has darker colors (including chestnut/mahogany) than the lighter OEGB hens, so the resulting color will be interesting.

Oh, they won't have beards then.

 

[Snowbelt]

Thank you again. It is always a pleasure to talk to someone who understands the genetics of cross-breeding much better than I do.