Breeding project.........

[chickenman98]

I am considering (trying) developing a new breed by crossing a dark Cornish hen with a golden lakenvelder rooster and crossing the resulting chicks back to a white rock roo. I am going for more gold and black than anything, and I want it to be a good dual purpose breed. I want it to breed pure, and be medium to large. Does it sound good?

 

[Celtic Hill]

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So whats your goal besides a "Good Dual Purpose Breed"? Because we got plenty of those...

 

[Illia]

FYI - The color of a Dark Cornish x Gold Lakenvelder, then crossed to a white bird will just give random brown and black mutt-type colors or solid white with gold leaking through.

So thus, it wouldn't be much of a 'breed' per say.


As another note, the Lakenvelder will not help the dual purpose part at all, the Cornish only would if it did not come from hatchery stock, and so that leaves you with a requirement for the white bird to be really meaty.

 

[chickenman98]

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So whats your goal besides a "Good Dual Purpose Breed"? Because we got plenty of those...

A showy dual purpose breed that forages well. and I have thought that a gold lakenvelder X black australop might be better and breed it 'till its pure.

 

[Illia]

Unless the Lakenvelder or Australorp are meaty, bigger birds than hatchery stock you won't get much "dual purpose" out of it. As for breeding til it's pure, just make sure you have a goal in color, type, etc.

With the word showy in mind I'd guess you want a Lakenvelder color.

 

[Celtic Hill]

Basically what you need to do is sit down and write a 'standard' for what you want to create. Then select breeds to get you there. Color will develop along the way, don't worry about that when creating a new breed.