Cuckoo Maran Rooster x (breed here) offspring?

[Lensters]

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No it is right because...

bl, bl - black

Bl, bl - blue

Bl, Bl - Splash

bl, bl X Bl, bl -> 50% bl, bl (black) and 50% Bl, bl (blue)

I don't know how to explain it without graphics so maybe you could look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square


Try these:

black X splash -> 100% blue

blue x splash -> 50% blue, 50% splash

 

[RAREROO]

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LOL, Most of it has come off the top of my head from what I've reasearched and learned and had experience with, like the Barring and dom white, I did use the calculator a little to make sure about the second generation crosses from the Dom. White birds and that's about all I used it for, but like I said earlier, once you learn genetics and have experience, it's easy to apply it and pull off the top of you head. I like your first question about the crosses with the list of hens you have, that was all from the top of my head too, but I don't claim to be a genetics expert, I'm still learning myself, alot of what I know, I've learned from other members here, like tadkerson (Tim), he's a great guy and the one I go to for harder questions about the projects I will be working on. He would be a good one to ask about the black question, because that part is over my head, LOL I just plug in black when I use the calculator.

Which one are you using? Does it show "approximate" pics of what the offspring will look like? If so, remember that the calculotors don't show leakage that you will get when crossing with black breeds on other colored breeds.

 

[RAREROO]

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Since I haven't really had more experience with breeding BA roos, I can't tell you for sure, but here are my predictions, ( and I promise I won't use the calculator, lol)

1) I know a Buff roo on black hens should give birds similar to these, ( you can click on the pic to make it bigger) (they are my sexlink cross of Buff X Barred. And originally I would have said you would get the same thing with the inverse cross of Black roo on Buff hens, but I had someone else contact me asking to help ID their birds, and he had a pullet that was black with some white messy lacing on the neck, and he said it could have com from a pen of Buff Orps, Black Giants, and BAs, I later found a pic of a B G on a BO and sent it and he said that is exactly what his birds look like, then today I found this pic on this thread which is a BA roo on a BO hen, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=287838&p=2 (post # 13) ,and that is similar to the ones I have been describing, and I would guess you would get the same thing when you use a Buff Rock hen instead of an Orp.

2) This should give have Blue and half black, they would most likely be feather footed too since feather footing is dominant.

3)Since Easter Eggers are mutts to begin with, it's hard to predict what colors they will produce, I would imagine it would be black with leakage.

4) This would produce Black Sexlinks, all the hens will be black and all the roos will be Barred/Cuckoo

5) Like I said earlier with White Leghorn crosses, the dom. white hens will produce all white birds with black spots. I have crossed a BA roo with my old dom. white Broiler Breeder hens, and it produced the same thing, same as when I bred her with a RIR roo.

Hope that helps

 

[australorp_breeder]

Thank you so much! As always now, lol! I have another question! You're like: Is she going to hurry up and understand this?!' Haha! Okay here goes...if I breed an Australorp x Maran will the female offspring lay dark eggs? Or would it have to be the same breed breeding?

 

[RAREROO]

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I don't know much about egg color genetics, and I don't really know how dark the BA eggs are, but my guess it that they would be a fairly dark brown but probably not as dark as the Marans. I know there are a few people working on a project of breeding an Ameraucana roo (EEs may work too) with Marans hens to make Olive Eggers, the eggs actually do look like dark olive green, kinda scary looking really, but the dark egg color of them Marans is effecting the darkness of the eggs there so I would think it would darken up regular brown eggs too, but since I haven't had any experience there, I can really say for sure.

 

[australorp_breeder]

Olive eggs are kinda weird, as long as they don't go borderline and somehow try and make black or pink eggs. Leave the other colored eggs for Easter. Australorps lay brown eggs by the way. It's weird, because I have one Australorp that lays brown eggs with darker brown spots on them. And it's only that one hen.

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep that's how it is, I knew they layed brown eggs but I didn't know how dark or if there was any consistancy, and certain hens can have their certain eggs, like with my hens, some of the Barred Rocks will lay eggs from light cream to med. brown. And with the Speckled Sussex hens, they are pretty consistant as far as color (light cream colored eggs) but there was on that lays spotted eggs like you said and one that lays a longer, skinnier egg. It's kinda weird. LOL and I'm sure somebody is going to end up making a black egger, they've made nearly every other color LOL .

 

[australorp_breeder]

Brace yourself, I have another question fired your way! Okay, so Jersey Giants have yellow on the bottom of their feet, and Australorps either white or pink. You probably already knew that but a memory refreshed wouldn't hurt. That and I'm going to be asking you something about them right now. Okay, so once I breed my Australorp male with a Jersey Giant...how does that work out for the chicks? Will some have yellow feet and some white/pink? I'm just asking because I'm also going to be breeding my future male with another Australorp...so I'm trying to figure out how I could tell which would be purebred when they hatch. I COULD incubate the egg in a certain order...but that might confuse me later on.

 

[RAREROO]

Ahhh ?? That's a hard one since I don't really have experience with that either, I'm bettter with plumage color genetics, haven't tried to research much on egg and leg color genetics. I would guess they would be more on the pink side. I crossed a Buff Orp roo ( white legs) with Barred Rock hens (yellow legs) and that gave black sexlinked chicks, and when they got a little older, I noticed that the roos had white leggs and the pullets had dark, almost black legs. I doubt that helps much.

Are you planning on have the BA and JG hens together in the same pen with the BA roo or will they be separated? If possible, it would probably be better to mark the eggs while and incubate them and then the 3 days before they hatch, put each variety of eggs in their own little pedigree cage to hatch. Maybe that will work depending on how you are set up.

Sorry I couldn't be more help with that question.

 

[australorp_breeder]

What?! A question you couldn't answer?! OMG! lol. I was thinking of marking them myself, but I wasn't sure if incubating an egg marked with Sharpie would hurt anything. Wait...I could just mark them with...what could I mark them with?

No, that did help me telling me about their leg colors. When I was generating stuff on the chicken calculator one result gave me a totally different-colored chicken and I was like...woah.