Colors

[Bantams182]

What's a good color pullet/hen to be paired with a BB Red Bantam cockerel?

 

[MysteryChicken]

What's a good color pullet/hen to be paired with a BB Red Bantam cockerel?

What's your goal?

What available colors of hens/pullets do you have?

BB Red/Wildtype is an intermediate gene, it can be both dominant, & recessive depending on what it's crossed too.

 

[Bantams182]

What's your goal?

What available colors of hens/pullets do you have?

BB Red/Wildtype is an intermediate gene, it can be both dominant, & recessive depending on what it's crossed too.

BBred, Ginger Red, Brown Red

 

[Bantams182]

BBred, Ginger Red, Brown Red

I am 100% new with Old English Game Bantams, we are not showing, just trying to find what would be best to start with giving a variety of colors.

 

[MysteryChicken]

BBred, Ginger Red, Brown Red

Well, BB Red will just make more BB Reds.

Brown Red X BB Red Will make more Brown Reds. Back crossing will result in some BB Reds, & Brown Reds.

I can't find much info on Ginger Red, but from what I've seen they're BB Red with Db(Dark Brown), a gene similar to Columbian. It's a dominant gene, so all offspring will be Ginger Red, but maybe incomplete, meaning some pattern will leak through.

 

[Bantams182]

Well, BB Red will just make more BB Reds.

Brown Red X BB Red Will make more Brown Reds. Back crossing will result in some BB Reds, & Brown Reds.

I can't find much info on Ginger Red, but from what I've seen they're BB Red with Db(Dark Brown), a gene similar to Columbian. It's a dominant gene, so all offspring will be Ginger Red, but maybe incomplete, meaning some pattern will leak through.

What would you cross a BB Red cockerel with even if you had to buy another pullet/hen for your liking and why?

 

[MysteryChicken]

What would you cross a BB Red cockerel with even if you had to buy another pullet/hen for your liking and why?

I would probably cross to one that's already mixed colored. Like Splash Barred, or maybe a Leaky Paint as examples.
These will help create more variety, or possible surprises.

 

[Bantams182]

I would probably cross to one that's already mixed colored. Like Splash Barred, or maybe a Leaky Paint as examples.
These will help create more variety, or possible surprises.

Thank you for giving your recommendation, I will look up these because they are definitely new to me, but I like the idea of creating new varieties.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thank you for giving your recommendation, I will look up these because they are definitely new to me, but I like the idea of creating new varieties.

You're welcome.
But really any mixed colored bird will do.

Same.

 

[Bantams182]

I would probably cross to one that's already mixed colored. Like Splash Barred, or maybe a Leaky Paint as examples.
These will help create more variety, or possible surprises.

I found Splash, barred Old English Game Bantams, but what is Leaky Paint?