Creating a Blue Laced Red Cochin......

[iluvmychicks]

Any ideas where to start?? I thought it would be a beautiful color on a cochin, and a neat project for me.....ha ha.

Shari

 

[RAREROO]

Here's another thread on the same question. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=269384

 

[iluvmychicks]

Had no idea this topic was already covered, I'm still a bit confused on the best way to acheive the color. I already have very good laced blue and splash cochins if that helps any. I saw suggestions for red cochins and gold laced?? I've seen good type reds in the country but never golden laced.

Thanks,
Shari

 

[iluvmychicks]

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Standard.....

HEAD: Plumage, rich mahogany bay, each feather having a medium blue stripe tapering to a fine point near it extremity.
NECK: Hackle—web of feathers lustrous medium blue with a narrow lacing of rich mahogany bay, uniform in width, extending around the point, shaft mahogany bay. Front of neck—same as breast.
BACK: Rich mahogany bay on surface. Saddle—rich mahogany bay in appearance, with a medium blue stripe through each feather, laced with rich mahogany bay, conforming to shape of center, the medium blue stripe having a long diamond-shaped center of rich mahogany bay.
TAIL: Main Tail—Medium blue. Sickles and Coverts—Lustrous, medium blue. Smaller Coverts—Medium blue with diamond-shaped centers of rich mahogany bay laced with rich mahogany bay.
WINGS: Fronts—Medium blue with rich mahogany bay centers. Bows—Rich mahogany bay. Coverts—web of each feather rich mahogany bay, with narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue, forming a double bar of laced feathers across wings. Primaries—Medium blue with lower edges rich mahogany bay. Secondary—Medium blue lower half of lower webs, rich mahogany bay with narrow medium blue edging wider at the tip; upper webs edged with rich mahogany bay.
BREAST: Web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue .
BODY AND FLUFF: Body—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue. Fluff—medium slate.
LEGS AND TOES: Lower Thighs—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue conforming to edge of feather Shanks and Toes—yellow.
UNDER COLOR OF ALL SECTIONS: Medium slate, shading to mahogany bay at base.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

They sound gorgeous!!!

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I will tell you how to make blue laced gold. Take a GL cock and mate him to splash or blue hens. Keep the blue daughters (most will be solid with some gold leaking through) from that and mate them back to a GL. The 2nd generation should give birds with primitive lacing. Keep the best blue pullets from that mating and mate back to GL. By the 3rd generation you should have better lacing, more like hatchery style lacing (if you used good gold laced birds). Once again keep the best blue laced girls and mate back to GL. By the 4th generation you should have something close to what you want as far as blue laced gold goes. As far as making BLR you would have to breed in good red birds (think show style RIR). I dont know what to do as far as all that goes, PM tim or Krys.

 

[Obsessive]

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OH I went here to see what this thread was....Its the one I started...DUH!

 

[cochin123]

sorry this is off topic but iluvmychicks check your email or pms please !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[iluvmychicks]

I will tell you how to make blue laced gold. Take a GL cock and mate him to splash or blue hens. Keep the blue daughters (most will be solid with some gold leaking through) from that and mate them back to a GL. The 2nd generation should give birds with primitive lacing. Keep the best blue pullets from that mating and mate back to GL. By the 3rd generation you should have better lacing, more like hatchery style lacing (if you used good gold laced birds). Once again keep the best blue laced girls and mate back to GL. By the 4th generation you should have something close to what you want as far as blue laced gold goes. As far as making BLR you would have to breed in good red birds (think show style RIR). I dont know what to do as far as all that goes, PM tim or Krys.

Thanks for your input FMP!!

Shari​

 

[roostercruiser]

I have no idea where to get any real good quality GL. I have a pair of GL but in no way are they good quality.