have you guys ever mixed a blue chicken with a buff chicken

[jab91864]

That blue orp/buff brahma mix is lookin good !!! Looking forward to seeing adult plumage.

Julie

 

[S n M Poultry]

Heres what happens when you mix a buff cochin with a blue cochin:

 

[herechickchick]

Here are my Buff Brahma/Blue Orpington girls.

 

[wclawrence]

Mother was a Blue Jersey Giant, Daddy was a Buff Orpington.

 

[ann]

s & m ,your cochin is beautiful

 

[Buckguy20]

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Sorry I don't have any pix. I got a camera for Christmas but I haven't been able to use it much. I do plan to get some pix soon. I only kept the hens so I will try and get some pix when I can.
I ended up with 15 or so out of these crossings and most were roos and in a variety of colors. I ended up selling all the roos.
There is a chicken board called PoultryImprovement. There is a man usually on there named Tim and he is a genetics genius.
I have very little grasp on genetics so I can't say as to what exactly goes on. He did have his own genetics website but I read a while back he was going to have to shut it down.

 

[redchicken]

I am gonna breed ameraucanas to get this so picture a buff blue ameraucana

 

[Kev]

Redchicken,

If the blues are the solid blue ones, then expected results are black or blue(like hereherechick's) maybe with some buff/brown like seminolewind's. Actually the answer is a bit more complicated because there is more than one way to make a solid black chicken. Chick's and seminole's crosses are good example of this- chick's blue probably was based on the E gene and seminole's blue possibly was based on birchin.

I find it very interesting other pictures are showing blue tailed buff types. If they are a cross, it shows the blue parent possibly was not pure for the black gene.

Blue primarily works on black pigment, with only a small or weaker effect on buff/red pigment. For example a splash(which really is a pure Blue) black breasted red rooster looks a lot like Pyle- mostly white bird with red on wings, hackles and saddle. Sometimes the red is diluted to more an orangish color.

So if a solid buff bird had blue, the effect wouldn't be much- maybe a little lighter than usual. The only time you can get to see buff and blue on the same bird is to have blue on something such as wheatens or columbian patterns* similar to wclawrence's rooster.

So someone suggesting wheaten earlier on was not a bad suggestion actually. I suspect you would like the columbian type better though.

*Columbian pattern is generally a solid colored body with black hackles and tail. Examples= Light or Buff Brahmas, Columbian Rocks. I don

 

[redchicken]

well I have noticed that all the muts we have had have more of the moms colors and more of the dads like comb type and leg color and body size

 

[speckledhen]

Kev, those Blue Orp/Buff Brahma crosses from herechickchick and from seminole are siblings. The solid colored ones are pullets and the ones with lots of gold (from their mother) are the cockerels. We ended up with accidental sexlinks from that cross.