Cochin bantam color?

[BByroo]

I have 2 red roosters with black tail feathers, 1 is smooth other is frizzle. My two hens are blue mottled, mom was black mottled and dad was blue splash frizzle or a blue and buff(?) Mille fleur. Is it possible to predict what colors I'd get? I also have a porcelain mille fleur too that could be put on one of the hens for fun

 

[1muttsfan]

You can try plugging the colors into the Chicken Color Calculator
http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kippengenen

And genetics for non-professionals
http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page0.html

And welcome to BYC

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I have 2 red roosters with black tail feathers, 1 is smooth other is frizzle. My two hens are blue mottled, mom was black mottled and dad was blue splash frizzle or a blue and buff(?) Mille fleur. Is it possible to predict what colors I'd get? I also have a porcelain mille fleur too that could be put on one of the hens for fun

Pictures of the roosters and hens would help.

 

[BByroo]

This is the flock, also I realized it is the hen bearded d'uccle who is a lavender (?) Mille fleur, the roo is columbian I think. I played around with the calculator and read the genetics link but still both red roos have white on some wing and toe feathers and black on tails and wings

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

This is the flock, also I realized it is the hen bearded d'uccle who is a lavender (?) Mille fleur, the roo is columbian I think. I played around with the calculator and read the genetics link but still both red roos have white on some wing and toe feathers and black on tails and wingsView attachment 2800199View attachment 2800200View attachment 2800201View attachment 2800202View attachment 2800203View attachment 2800204

Your cochins are regular reds, the extra black/white markings don’t really mean anything genetically. The blue hen doesn’t appear to be pure for the mottling gene, she just carries it. Both d’uccles are porcelain. You didn’t mention the barred one, are you wondering what would happen if you bred her as well?

Red cochin x blue cochin - blues with some red leakage and blacks with some red leakage (if using the frizzled rooster, half the chicks will be frizzled).
Red cochin x porcelain d’uccle - mostly solid colored red/buff chicks, carrying the mottling gene and the lavender gene but not expressing them.
Porcelain d’uccle x blue cochin (carrying mottling) - 25% blue chicks with red leakage, 25% black chicks with red leakage, 25% blue mottled chicks with red leakage, and 25% black mottled chicks with red leakage (all will carry the lavender gene but not express it).

 

[BByroo]

Your cochins are regular reds, the extra black/white markings don’t really mean anything genetically. The blue hen doesn’t appear to be pure for the mottling gene, she just carries it. Both d’uccles are porcelain. You didn’t mention the barred one, are you wondering what would happen if you bred her as well?

Red cochin x blue cochin - blues with some red leakage and blacks with some red leakage (if using the frizzled rooster, half the chicks will be frizzled).
Red cochin x porcelain d’uccle - mostly solid colored red/buff chicks, carrying the mottling gene and the lavender gene but not expressing them.
Porcelain d’uccle x blue cochin (carrying mottling) - 25% blue chicks with red leakage, 25% black chicks with red leakage, 25% blue mottled chicks with red leakage, and 25% black mottled chicks with red leakage (all will carry the lavender gene but not express it).

Thanks I think a couple will be cute next spring! The barred lives with all of them too so does a buff brahma hen. Not super curious what the barred hens babies would look like because I figured they would be sex links. So the blue hen was probably fathered by the blue splash frizzle? And so with the frizzle roo a higher chance of frizzles?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thanks I think a couple will be cute next spring! The barred lives with all of them too so does a buff brahma hen. Not super curious what the barred hens babies would look like because I figured they would be sex links. So the blue hen was probably fathered by the blue splash frizzle? And so with the frizzle roo a higher chance of frizzles?

Yes, the frizzled blue or splash rooster is probably the father. Frizzling is a dominant gene, not recessive, so a chicken that is not frizzled will not have any higher tendency to pass it on to their offspring no matter their parents’ genetics.