Color genetics thread.

[redrooster99]

I have the room for the birds I just need to know what to get.

 

[fadedracer]

I bet they would be beautiful and sex-color linked, so you could just save the pullets for egg laying or even the males for music and beautiful scenery. Enjoy!!!!!! If I can ever help you in the future just let me know. If I have trouble figuring something out I will put you on it to help me also. Thanks Again!!!!!

 

[redrooster99]

I bet they would be beautiful and sex-color linked, so you could just save the pullets for egg laying or even the males for music and beautiful scenery. Enjoy!!!!!! If I can ever help you in the future just let me know. If I have trouble figuring something out I will put you on it to help me also. Thanks Again!!!!!

I think they would be beutiful also. What breeds do u think I should start with.

 

[fadedracer]

If you want a cheap feed bill and small eggs that kids love to eat and buy. I would go to Ideal Hatchery and buy several different colors of Old English Game bantams. If you wait till spring, they usually have a huge grab bag of colors in any bantam breed for about 1 dollar a chick. The only draw back is you have to wait 4 to 6 months until they start laying. The nice part is they will go broody and hatch there own eggs. If you want Standard ( full size chickens and eggs ) Cross a production leghorn male ( barred color ) with americauna hens and you will get barred birds, of almost ever color, that will lay blue and kaki eggs. Save back ( hatch only ) the blue eggs, and you will have different colored barred chickens that can be sexed as day old ( all white heads will be cocks, all solid heads or very little white on the heads will be pullets ) and they will all only lay blue eggs in the future. Beautiful birds that lay beautiful eggs. I am sure you could sell off your extra pullets because of the blue eggs they will lay. And as a bonus if somebody wants chickens to eat, you can sex the day old chicks, and sell them the cockerel day old chicks. This will help pay for the feed bill for the bigger birds. Ideal hatchery sells production leghorns which are nothing more than barred leghorns. You by chance don`t know of anyone that has longcrower chickens do you? Keep me posted as to what you get, Thanks!!!!!

 

[redrooster99]

If you want a cheap feed bill and small eggs that kids love to eat and buy. I would go to Ideal Hatchery and buy several different colors of Old English Game bantams. If you wait till spring, they usually have a huge grab bag of colors in any bantam breed for about 1 dollar a chick. The only draw back is you have to wait 4 to 6 months until they start laying. The nice part is they will go broody and hatch there own eggs. If you want Standard ( full size chickens and eggs ) Cross a production leghorn male ( barred color ) with americauna hens and you will get barred birds, of almost ever color, that will lay blue and kaki eggs. Save back ( hatch only ) the blue eggs, and you will have different colored barred chickens that can be sexed as day old ( all white heads will be cocks, all solid heads or very little white on the heads will be pullets ) and they will all only lay blue eggs in the future. Beautiful birds that lay beautiful eggs. I am sure you could sell off your extra pullets because of the blue eggs they will lay. And as a bonus if somebody wants chickens to eat, you can sex the day old chicks, and sell them the cockerel day old chicks. This will help pay for the feed bill for the bigger birds. Ideal hatchery sells production leghorns which are nothing more than barred leghorns. You by chance don`t know of anyone that has longcrower chickens do you? Keep me posted as to what you get, Thanks!!!!!

What about ideal's production black roo, would that work. I want chickens that lay EARLY!

 

[redrooster99]

Also what would a Norwegian Jaerhon hen covered by a Black Production roo look like. I know they would be barred/cuckoo, but would they have any brown color?

 

[fadedracer]

Yes production blacks, I just forgot what they are called by ideal hatchery, Sorry.

 

[fadedracer]

The production blacks will give you bigger eggs and lots more of them.

 

[redrooster99]

definantly getting some.

 

[redrooster99]

What do the production blacks look like, like leghorns?