Considering an American Bresse x Buckeye cross, please give input

[nicalandia]

Bresse are dominant white
Buckeye are red Columbian
Crossing a Bresse male over Buckeye female will give Pea Combed offspring that are mostly white possibly with red leakage.

The Bresse are actually recessive white.

I am trying to find out what could hide under the recessive white, the literature is quite scarce for this breed

 

[Newchickmom2023]

Im picking up a buff chantecler and two dark cornish hens this May to check out their growth and laying rates but mainly I want to work with the Bresse and Buckeyes because from what I've been reading they both grow relatively quickly and lay well. I am interested in the double breast quality of the cornish, but its hard to find a good source for the white cornish and I can only find hatchery quality dark cornish. I've been thinking of working some nursery quality Delawares into the mix but that might be a year or two away.

Is it a good idea to breed in the double breast from a dark cornish hen crossed to either a male buckeye or bresse or is it best to have use the dark cornish roo on a hen?

Overall I want a chicken that has a pea comb, preferably mostly white with maybe a little color leakage, good broiler weight after being on pasture after ~12-16 wks and overall the ability to keep choice hens for egg good egg laying.

Curious what happened On the Bresse buckeye cross? Something I was also considering….

 

[Smoky joe]

Bresse are dominant white
Buckeye are red Columbian
Crossing a Bresse male over Buckeye female will give Pea Combed offspring that are mostly white possibly with red leakage.

Bress male is EE/SS/II/DbDb/PgPg
It's better you use a Buckeye male over Bresse hens. All pulets are not silver

 

[Newchickmom2023]

Bress male is EE/SS/II/DbDb/PgPg
It's better you use a Buckeye male over Bresse hens. All pulets are not silver

Can you explain this to me like I’m 5? I haven’t learned the genetic coding you mentioned above. I got some “experimental” bresse for meat, but like the idea of a bresse cross with buckeye for cold hardiness, and dual purpose. One of the things that concerned me about keeping a bresse Roo was their questionable temperament. Buckeyes are supposedly more docile and I may be able to get my hands on some adult buckeye in the fall. Just trying to decide whether to keep a bresse Roo, and get more buckeye hens, or let all the Roos go for meat and add a buckeye Roo and a hen or two.

 

[Smoky joe]

Can you explain this to me like I’m 5? I haven’t learned the genetic coding you mentioned above. I got some “experimental” bresse for meat, but like the idea of a bresse cross with buckeye for cold hardiness, and dual purpose. One of the things that concerned me about keeping a bresse Roo was their questionable temperament. Buckeyes are supposedly more docile and I may be able to get my hands on some adult buckeye in the fall. Just trying to decide whether to keep a bresse Roo, and get more buckeye hens, or let all the Roos go for meat and add a buckeye Roo and a hen or two.

When you breed with Bress chickens, you get a lot of other genes in the line of the other breed, the original Bresse, the Bresse have a color that is similar to the Sicilian Butter Combs and the East Frisian Gulls, so the Buckeyes will have edging and other markings, but that is also very nice because of the Columbia factor you can get a very nice modified pattern.