Confused on Blue breeding

[The Moonshiner]

Oh boy that's a good one.
I'm working with the mille fleur pattern. Guess I been going about it all wrong. Their way seems so much easier.
I think this thread just took a turn.
Interested to see what else like these can be found.
These are quite entertaining.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Can blue produce black then? We've got a blue orpington rooster who had a few lots of chicks with our salmon faverolle hen. Their daughters were either solid black, blue or maybe dark lavender (I don't really know how lavender works) with very cute muffs. The boys had more faverolle colours

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Two of the daughters, Concrete and Lady Jane

A purebred blue chicken (one with all the kinks worked out of the line, etc.) has two extended black genes (E/E) which determine the chicken's patterning. This pattern gene allows black colors show up without much/any broken patterning.

Since splash is actually just a mutation of black, this pattern gene also allows almost unbroken expression of splash--and, consequently, blue.

Salmon Faverolle, on the other hand, has the pattern genes (E^Wh/E^Wh) (it's somewhat similar to duckwing pattern.),which mostly conceals the two black genes (bl/bl) that they also carry. That's why your birds have black feather tips, and the males have black chests.

When you cross Wheaten (E^Wh/E^Wh) with extended black (E/E), you get (E/E^Wh) The E is dominant, so all of the offspring are extended black, even though they carry wheaten.

Your crossbred chicks have a 100% chance of inheriting black (bl) from mum and a 50/50 chance of inheriting the splash gene (Bl) from Dad. The ones that do are blue and extended black. (E/E^Wh, Bl/bl) The ones that inherit dad's black gene are black and extended black. (E/E^Wh, bl/bl.)

Hope this helps!

Does that make sense?

EDT'd because splash is Bl and black is bl, not the other way around. My mind's going...

 

[sylviethecochin]

Oh boy that's a good one.
I'm working with the mille fleur pattern. Guess I been going about it all wrong. Their way seems so much easier.
I think this thread just took a turn.
Interested to see what else like these can be found.
These are quite entertaining.

Here's another good one--I have these stored on my computer. Sadly(?) that's the last of them.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Here's another good one--I have these stored on my computer. Sadly(?) that's the last of them.

Wait, I can get SLW by breeding a black and white silkies together?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Wait, I can get SLW by breeding a black and white silkies together?

I know! Isn't it beautiful--so simple and easy... Why did I never think of this?!

 

[BantyChooks]

I know! Isn't it beautiful--so simple and easy... Why did I never think of this?!

Maybe I can get perfect Partridge birds by breeding a red chicken to a black chicken! We're so dumb, huh?

 

[Beer can]

Thought this was a interesting article on crossing black and white Jersey Giant's.
http://nationaljerseygiantclub.com/media/Document_10.pdf

 

[The Moonshiner]

Maybe I can get perfect Partridge birds by breeding a red chicken to a black chicken! We're so dumb, huh?

No kidding.
Instead of all these damn groups I'm trying to sort out I could just have blacks, whites and reds and pretty much get anything I want from them.
The internet is so helpful.

 

[bluejeans]

I buy wrangler blue jeans there cheaper than levis.

 

[Kiki]

@Lady of McCamley @KikisGirls

Don't ask me!




I'd ask @The Moonshiner !


ETA:
I should have read past the 2nd post.