getting to a delaware

[speckledhen]

DuckBoy, kathyinmo has gotten her new line of Delawares going already by doing this. You may want to follow her progress and her photos. She had to hatch hundreds upon hundreds of chicks but I think she's up to her F3 generation now, if I remember correctly. You'll need lots of chick starter, LOL!

 

[draye]

Tim,

I am also taking on this project can you please messege me in detail. I am staring from scatch with a barred roo and hew hamp hens thanks Cory

Hello, and

, from Arkansas.
This will be a very interesting thread to watch. Please keep everyone informed when you get it started and post plenty of pictures for us.

 

[crazyhen]

You need to talk to Kathynmo. She has made a new set of Dels and they are really pretty. She used the German NH and a really good barred rock stock. It is very interesting. She is on her her f3 I think. Gloria Jean

 

[tadkerson]

I have produced delaware from barred rock and rhode island red. Kathy did a great job and has some fine looking birds.

one of my birds.

You want the cross to start with a male barred rock over the new hampshire female this produces F1. This cross will insure that the female offspring are silver.

Then cross an F1 male with the F1 females -this produces F2 . From this cross you will have to hatch enough chicks to get a barred and silver columbian male and female. The silver columbian males and females will have white down or white down with some back markings.
The other chicks will be black.

silver columbian down color with back markings

The F2 silver columbian males and females will show some autosomal red. Cross them any way. Pick out the male and female offspring that have the least amount of red and cross them. I cleaned up the autosomal red in three generations.

The first silver columbian males you hatch will show some smut as adults- but do not worry- future generations will have cleaner plumage.

smutty male

Tim

 

[DuckBoy]

Perfect Now I just need time and Patience. One last thing should I use one barred male and multiple NHR females or could i use more then one male? Thanks Cory

 

[tadkerson]

Find the best looking barred rock male and the best looking females and cross them.

Tim

 

[DuckBoy]

With the F1 breedings do i keep any male and a bunch of females?

 

[DuckBoy]

Out of my F1 babies how many females should I keep

 

[nicalandia]

Out of my F1 babies how many females should I keep

None..

keep only the Barred Males, they will be E/eWh and S/s+(golden) B/b+(one copy of sex linked Barring).......

what you need is to fix the eWh(wheaten) genes so they are homozygous for it(eWh/eWh, the chicks will look yellow) and the S(dominant sex linked Silver)..

cross you best F1 roo to a NH hens, you will expect to hatch at least 50 eggs, Cull the black chicks, stay witht the white chicks(wheaten) wait for them to grow some, watch for the silver barred columbian birds(50% of them, but 50% of those will be golden columbian barred males)

hey duckboy I remember you from the Coop at the classroom forums, whats up? you dont post there anymore?

 

[DuckBoy]

see i have heard both F1 with F1 and F1 with NH so which is it