First time breeder

[whiskey69169]

Not sure if this is the right place but I'm just wondering, I know it all depends on what genes are passed down but I have a Standard Red Cochin Roster and 2 Rhode Island White, 1 White Leghorn, 1 Red Cochin, 1 Bearded D'uccle hens. I'm just wondering if I cross my roo with the RIW's or my Leghorn will I get the same egg production, meat (RIR), and if so what range of colors?

 

[3riverschick]

Not sure if this is the right place but I'm just wondering, I know it all depends on what genes are passed down but I have a Standard Red Cochin Roster and 2 Rhode Island White, 1 White Leghorn, 1 Red Cochin, 1 Bearded D'uccle hens. I'm just wondering if I cross my roo with the RIW's or my Leghorn will I get the same egg production, meat (RIR), and if so what range of colors?

Look around BYC until you find Marvin ( BYC: nicalandia). He's a human genetics calculator and can answer all your color questions.
Best,
Karen

 

[donrae]

Your Cochin roo is going to bring down the egg production of the Leghorn and Rhodie hens in the offspring. Standard Cochins are also slow to mature and not especially meaty, so if eating cockerels are your goal he's not really a good choice for a flock rooster.

Your red cochin rooster over your RIW hens should give you sex linked offspring. Gold females, silver males. Leghorns carry dominant white, so no sex-linkage from them. Breed a white Leghorn to pretty much anything and you get a mostly white bird with flecks of the other parent's color.

Feathered legs are basically dominant, so all his chicks should have at least lightly feathered legs.