Could I also put these on my genetics blog? I would credit you, of course. It's rare that I get a resource if mixed colors where I know exactly the genotype and I think it would be useful for people to actually know them instead of just saying "they're mixed." In turkeys and quail they can just look at any bird and name the genotype but in chickens we don't have that.
Sure. I've been playing "where did this trait come from" for a while.
Here's a few more.
this is Storm. She hatched from an egg from another flock. The roo was a blue laced red wyandotte (we figured out he was splash marked as 100% of his offspring were blue: her full brother is flock master now, red, white and blue striped). The mother was a black Olive Egger with really small/light pinstripes. When Storm popped a 3 feather crest, we determined that the OE mix had to be a Cream Crested Legbar and a Cuckoo Marans. Which way that went, not sure.
this is her daughter
with him for a father. He's definitely a mixed breed: father was a buff orp x EE mix and (based upon kippenjungle tweaking) mother was most likely a silver laced wyandotte. He is also the father to the hen back left. Her mother is the lady in front of Storm
a Partridge Plymouth Rock.
mote pics of that cross, 2nd with the brown leghorn.
the son hamburg x leghorn
And the sisters
front left is hamburg x brown leghorn. Black in the niddle is hamburg x mottled houdan
and the mother. Got 2 of that cross, one of which popped a couple of white feathers in an adult moult and the following year, really showed the mottling. (No pics of that)
this hen (I have 2, not entirely sure which one of the 2) is a White Sapphire. McMurray used to carry them. They were supposed to lay blue eggs, but neither does. They're basically a splash leghorn. When crossed with my hamburg,
got her and her twin out of the cross.
one of the 2 dainty blue hamburg x sapphires bred back to her father for the little guy in the middle. Very much blue.
the hamburg x golden wyandotte again
and her mother.
the hamburg again
and the buff orp x EE father mentioned above.