Buff Barred Cochin Thread

[County Boy]

PB, Honey, and there 1st chick!!

 

[Fancy Feathers]

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Wow! What lovely birds you all have! Someone from one of the other banty cochin threads suggested I post here about a "sport" that cropped up in my buff banty flock.

I have this lovely rooster:

He was hatched by my buff hens from eggs that they laid. At the time I had a solid buff banty cochin rooster, a white silkie (with no crest) who is white with minimal black barring on him, and what I believe was a birchen banty cochin roo in with my buff banty cochin hens.

What I want to know is whether or not this roo would be considered a buff barred. He has very blurry white bars, and some extra white feathers in his tail and wings, but is definitely not light buff or lemon. And there is no hint of blue, black or any color other than white in his plumage.

I really like his color and am hoping to create a small flock this color with better barring and overall confirmation. So what color & pattern hen should I breed him to? Someone on another thread suggest I breed back to my solid buff hens, but I wonder if that would dilute the barring further. My knowledge of the genetics of the barred/cuckoo patterns is pretty slim, so any advice on this would be of great help.

Thanks!
Korina

If you are wanting to improve type and color by using him then take him back over black barred hens. Buy some really nice black barred girls with good type and breed him to them. It looks like it will still take a while to get the color and barring correct and without knowing exactly what else he is carrying in his genes you could get all kinds of coloring. You would not get buff barred kids the first generation and yes, breeding back to buff will take out what little barring he is showing now. He looks to be out of your barred Silkie boy but that is a guess by his shape and not seeing your roosters.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

PB, Honey, and there 1st chick!!

Adorable!

 

[k0r1nag]

If you are wanting to improve type and color by using him then take him back over black barred hens. Buy some really nice black barred girls with good type and breed him to them. It looks like it will still take a while to get the color and barring correct and without knowing exactly what else he is carrying in his genes you could get all kinds of coloring. You would not get buff barred kids the first generation and yes, breeding back to buff will take out what little barring he is showing now. He looks to be out of your barred Silkie boy but that is a guess by his shape and not seeing your roosters.

Thanks for the advice. I was pretty sure that the barred roo was his father. He has the correct number of toes for a cochin, and yellow skin, but his feathers are a bit "fluffier" than my other cochins. He was a "bonus egg" that my broody cochin laid after I set her on a clutch of polish eggs I wanted her to hatch

It was my plan to try to find some show quality hens to breed him with so I will start looking for some black barred girls for this Spring. Since I am not very well versed with the barred pattern, will I need to breed him back to his daughters, both barred and unbarred to increase the pattern while trying to keep the buff coloration? Or should I find a SQ solid buff roo to breed his offspring with?

Thanks again!
Korina

 

[County Boy]

 

[Fancy Feathers]

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Wow! That is a very good close up photo! Adorable chick!

 

[County Boy]

 

[wwmicasa1]

OMG Mike, sooooo cute~!