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The color on the picture is, in chicken calculator lingo, a "blue patterned gold columbian" (gold columbian = buff columbian)
To get more just use a buff columbian rooster. If you use a black breasted red rooster (BBR, without columbian) the pullet offspring might get more blue pattern on their backs.
If you want an entire gold laced blue chicken then best look at the silver sussex.
Silver sussex are black with a thin silver lace all over. They can be bred along with light sussex so their genotype is probably: E^R/E^Wh Co/Co plus maybe pattern gene Pg
So they are birchen(/wheaten) base with columbian and a few secret ingredients.
If you replace the silver by gold and add blue, your chicken would be full gold laced blue.
I don't know if they would maintain contrast though.
The body lacing does not show up in the chickencalculator, the pictures would look like a "blue patterned gold -necked/birchen"
(Birchen can have some lacing on the upper breast region, which in silver sussex is extended over the entire body)
Another color that shows gold lacing on blue is "blue patterned gold quail".
If your columbian factor is not "pure", eg by crossing with BBR, then that would look like quail pattern but the lacing will not be any good if not true quail.
Another color with gold laced blue would be blue patterned gold flitter (leghorn color).
The flitter is gorgeous, shiny.
The partridge color can be selected for a clear groundcolor rim, again secret ingredient probably.
In blue partridge hens the feather should in fact be blue stippled gold instead of blue, but this blue tends to spread over the entire feather
So do you have gold based roosters available?
No gold roosters right now...but I sense I shall be seeking them out! Now I have a REAL project on my mind...I keep coming up with them and wistfully make chicken recipes, but her neck lacing is soooooo nice I've often wondered if I could make more and try to do a whole bird in it...or make the color intentional.
Thanks so much- I knew you'd be the guy to ask!
So- I found over the past months that another BYCer lives just outside of town (there are several here, actually) and she raises Sussex- all types, all from various, mostly imported lines! What an incredible flock she has!
She has the Buff Sussex roo I need, and I'm tickled today I will be going forward with this project! My goal is to produce a Gold Laced Blue, and I haven't decided what color eggs I want...wouldn't it be neat to created a GLB EE strain that bred true and lay an olive egg? This may be my Life's Work...I'm just neurotic enough to do it. I have a few of her daughters now that look promising, with the another roo, so adding the correct genes may be the only way to go; removing the genes I don't want may be too difficult!
What fun!
