genetics behind Lemon Blue Cochin

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! You could do like I'm doing...
This Cochin boy is lemon blue *with the barring gene*

and I have him with black and blue Cochin girls.
From those matings, I mostly get 'clean' black, blues, splashes but also a few males that are lemon blue / red brown and females with just a 'collar' of lemon / red.
All the females that have inherited the lemon / red have also inherited barring. I have those daughters back with him in hope of improving the markings.
I don't know if that will work, but it's worth a shot.
Good luck!

Lisa
*edit*
ps: what is lemon blue / brown red on that chicken calculator?
Thanks!

 

[rnorris1234]

If you're getting barring on the females does that mean your lemon blues are based on a partridge stock? or where would the barring come from? I think the picture of your roo is great.

 

[Goose and Fig]

What is the difference between the lemon blue of the old english and blue partridge? (Partridge and brown red males look so similar!) And those lemon blue rosecombs look like blue coppers. Is there really a difference- or is it all in the name as associated with specific breeds?

 

[Chris09]

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Partridge birds don't have Barring nor should Lemon Blues.
The Barring would have to come from a Barred Bird like a Barred Cochin.

Chris

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I wish I could answer that. Funny story... I sold some birds to this guy in '06 and mentioned I needed a blue Cochin rooster. He dropped that one off here a couple days later (surprise). I didn't get a chance to ask anything about him.
I thought he was UGLY then, but have learned to appreciate the color. In person, his barring is really noticable.

Lisa

 

[swheat]

Here is a pic of my Lemon Blue ( these are from Brown Red breeding stock). There is also a Lemon Blue Splash roo in the pic.

 

[RAREROO]

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Barring is a gene that works on its own, If your roo is Homo. Barred, then all of his offspring should be barred and if he is Het Barred then half and half of both sexes would be barred. It wont have any correlation with wether or not some of them got the Brown Red pattern.


On the Calculator, for Brown Red you use Black Copper and change the genes to blue if you want it to be Lemon Blue.

 

[RAREROO]

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Yes, Lemon Blue and Blue Partridge are different colors, be biggest difference in appears is in the hens.

But Lemon Blue is the same as Blue copper and Brown Red is the same as Black Copper. But they both very different from Partridge.

 

[RAREROO]

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Partridge has penciling, not barring

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Sorry for asking my own questions, Robert. Maybe you will find some useful information in it.

On the Calculator, for Brown Red you use Black Copper and change the genes to blue if you want it to be Lemon Blue

Thanks! I was looking and looking...

Barring is a gene that works on its own, If your roo is Homozygous Barred, then all of his offspring should be barred and if *he is Heterozygous Barred then half and half of both sexes would be barred. It won't have any correlation with whether or not some of them got the Brown Red pattern.

Again, thanks. *He is.

Lisa​