Well that's strange but very very interesting, I'll have to write that down in my notes! Sorry if what I said seemed a lil hostile, it wasn't meant to be. I didn't know red wasn't expressed as much! I've been doing tons of experiments with gene enhancers and how they interact with blue, extended black, and how other colors of birds interact when mixed so this will greatly help my research!
That's very fascinating! So is duckwing not a dominant trait then? I have honestly zero clue what Kikimora is tbh... But she's VERY broody and is actually sitting on a nest of her own eggs currently! If they successfully hatch I'm hoping I'll be able to get some males and females to test this out!
That's a super interesting question! I had a similar EE rooster with red barring that crossed with my Black Star hen and created this gorgeous gem of a bird!
At that point, they will be 3/4 Marans. I expect half of those chicks to be pure for Birchen at the e-locus, and the other half to carry whatever recessive e-locus gene they got from the Whiting rooster.
Recessive patterns have some chance of showing up, depending on which of the Backcross birds you use.
She's generation 3 in my mix breed flock!
I would like something like that to come through. Most of my hens are black copper marans and several black - fibro olive eggers. I need more color in my flock so it's easier to distinguish birds. It doesn't help that I have a dozen pure black copper marans eggs in the incubator along with a dozen of these whiting x BCM eggs.
Yes (but the question is which backcross birds are carrying it. There is some degree of luck involved in which you would probably want to use the lightest birds.)
If I get to that point, maybe I'll use several roosters and several hens together for more diversity in the next generation. I will need to weed out any single combs and any layers that don't have the blue egg gene. The goal would be a true breeding olive-green line. So any roosters would have to be tested for the blue gene as well.
