Breeding reference

[Yard full o' rocks]

I am branching out from just Buff Orps to a variety of chickens. I have RIRs, BRs and bantam EEs in the 'bator now and another 34 BOs due next week. I am going to hatch some BBS orps next. Is there any type of reference chart (please pardon my neophyte terminology) that will tell you what you will get if you breed a certain type of rooster to a certain type of hen. For example - what would you get if you bred a BO roo to a Blue Orp hen? Etc.....thanks

 

[Krys109uk]

Henk's Chicken calculator answers most questions.

http://home.hetnet.nl/~h.meijers69/overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

 

[Henk69]

Buff is a difficult case for the CCC

Set BO as: E^Wh/E^Wh Co/Co Db/Db Mh/Mh Di/Di i+/i+ s+ (no dun factor I^d as suggested for buff)
Set the blue as: E^R/E^R Ml/Ml maybe S instead of s+
Blue is probably E/E but the effect of Db is best shown on E^R
The result is somewhere between E and E^R
Db's effect on E is not well documented.

No whites in your flock?

 

[Krys109uk]

I see what you mean. When I've crossed Buff Orps to what I believe to be E birds the offspring have had a surprising amount of gold on the head, neck & breast.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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I tried to look at that Henks calculator and just got more confused. I think it was just all the foreign language stuff and I was tired. Will try it again today (with coffee). Perhaps I am still too novice at this to really understand the genetics part just yet. Thank you for the suggestion.

 

[Henk69]

Don't worry. Some concepts have to sink in slowly.

The columbian effect alone took me 2 weeks to digest.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I've found that I learn best one gene at a time--especially when I first started learning.

In a lot of ways learning the genes is like math--it builds upon itself--can't learn or understand calculus if you haven't mastered arithmetic (and a few other things

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I still haven't quite figured out columbian