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You should get 50% Black and 50% Blue chicks.
When do you get splash in the mix? Is it when breeding blue to blue?
Blue x Blue = 50% Blue, 25% Black and 25% Splash;
Blue x Splash = 50% Blue and 50% Splash;
Blue x Black = 50% Blue and 50% Black;
Splash x Black = 100% Blue;
Splash x Splash = 100% Splash;
Black x Black = 100% Black.
pics of my blr 3 month old cockerel (he's still not got all his adult feathers in yet and type is obiously not good). if anyone can help me with getting a nice typed gold laced female to breed to him I would be ecstatic!!
I do not have the space to breed large numbers of birds and good type is a must to improve this program. I would love to have someone else that is willing to work on this project also and be able to swap offspring to get this right
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Mandy he is just incredible! He's a giant leap forward in your program. I know there's been a lot of birds that have gone into producing him, but IMHO I see him as the beginning of a focused and serious breeding program that will one day produce the Blue Laced Red Cochin.
Here's some updated pics of the birds I got in my lemon-blue project order. They're 9 weeks old in the pics. I'll only be keeping one or two of the cochin roos (I have 5 in the bunch). I really like the light colored one the best, but I'm not really sure if any of the roosters will actually be useful in developing lemon-blue. Opinions?
This is one of the pullets. She's the closest I have to a brown-red, but she doesn't exactly fit the brown-red pictures I've seen. The other pullets are two blacks and a blue.
This is my favorite cochin roo. He actually has a very light blue laced in a light buff on some of his feathers, but it looks more white in the pics.
Group pics:
There's also an almost solid darker buff roo, but I somehow managed to NOT get a pic of him.
Is it hard to get the tails right on large fowl cochin? My light roo is the only one with the traditional cochin puff tail.
