d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

[speckledhen]

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Now I've got a mental picture of Foghorn Leghorn with that pipsqueak chicken hawk saying "Now, look a here boy, Ah say look here. You need to grow up some before you sass me!"

It's a good thing Suede is such a patient soul.

Yup, my big old blue turkey is a sweetheart. I'm just glad there was a fence between them. Don't want Aubrey squashed when I've waited so long to have him!

 

[flower]

Speaking of waiting so long......................................................................................are my eggs on their way ?

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

I have a few color questions!!!! I have 2 porcelain pairs and a blue hen/blue splash roo pair....so what colors of chicks could I get if I left them in their pairs and are there any other colors that I could get if I mixed them up a lil? Thanks in advance!!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yes millie to porcelain will yeild millies split to lav.
that chick sound porcelain colored, would need a pic to be sure, but there's no way it is without the male being split to lavender some where down the line. It may have been years back before you got the line, but it takes 2 copies , one from each parent for lavender of any form to visibly show in a chick.
Post a pic when you get a chnce and I'll be glad to take a look.
A blue millie would have had to have been the cross of a millie to a blue millie to have gotten one on the original cross, birds arent split to blue, they either are blue or black, so if ones wasnt blue, none can be. also the chick would be normal millie colored, just with blue in place of black areas

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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no problem
porcelain to porcelain will obviously be all porcelain

splash to blue yeilds all splash (they are the same color, blue has one blue gene, splash has 2 is all)

splash to splash breed true

blue to blue makes 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash

splash to black yeilds all blue

now if you mixed the splash or blue to porcelain

on your first cross you will get half blacks, and half blues as these are the dominate colors in those birds, mottled and lavender are recessive and take both parents having at least 1 copy to express the color.
these blues and blacks will be split to both mottled and lavender.
here's the cool part

back breed the blues to each other and you will have a million possible colors and patterns, mostly mottled stuff, but with the genes these birds will be carring you can get columbians in various colors, blue mottled, lavender mottled, black mottled, silver millies, millies, duck wings, and a few others, then you can get them all in mottled, blue, or lavender phases, or a combination of the two

same combos will occur back breeding the black offspring, but you just wont have any in a blue color

 

[Brown Chicka Brown Cow]

Thanks Boggy Bottom Bantams! That is really cool...and exactly what I wanted to know.....I have no idea how you keep all that in your head!! lol....

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

just been doing it for a while. learned off calculators got familiar with the genetics involved in all the basic colors, then the patterns, then the twp together. after a few years of hatching 1000's it'll stick with you, LOL

 

[flower]

OK aubrey since you are so experienced, skilled, knowledgeable and sweet.......................what color are these two month old bantams

 

[flower]

I hatched them from blue eggs labled BBS Am.

 

[chicken boy sam]

They look like blue/lavender OEGB...