Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[Pault76]

Does anyone know where I can find some show quality crele's and bb reds. I need 2 crele pullets and a trio of bb reds. I'd love to find some in southern Illinois or southeast MO.

I had 2 pair of creles but while feeding one hen escaped and got retreived by my lab which didn't end well.

 

[Cjarvis]

i wanna know what to cross to make brassy backs i would think a black over a gold duckwing but i aint sure ive also heard that blue reds dont breed true. is that a fact cause i got a ton of eggs in my incubator right now haha. and one more. they say you can put a spangled under a bbr rooster and it will pull some of the white out of her. ?? if any one knows this stuff please let me know

It is actually BB Red over a recessive Black then F1 x F1 and you may never see brassy back, best bet is to buy some they will breed true when well developed.

 

[WallabyOfChaos]

Well, I think I have talked myself in to breeding our Silver Duckwings to a Self Blue rooster. Maybe. This is purely for fun - I'm not trying to make any new colors or anything like that. Anywho, I guess the big question I have is will the lavender gene dilute silver? I was hoping to have some silver and lavender colored birds out of the F1 hens and a lavender rooster. I understand that breeding solids to patterened birds will likely foul up the pattern, but I have to say that doesn't concern me as I am not trying to make any new varieties - This little project is just to give me something to do and I was hoping to end up with some unique-colored birds running around the yard.

 

[Cjarvis]

Well, I think I have talked myself in to breeding our Silver Duckwings to a Self Blue rooster. Maybe. This is purely for fun - I'm not trying to make any new colors or anything like that. Anywho, I guess the big question I have is will the lavender gene dilute silver? I was hoping to have some silver and lavender colored birds out of the F1 hens and a lavender rooster. I understand that breeding solids to patterened birds will likely foul up the pattern, but I have to say that doesn't concern me as I am not trying to make any new varieties - This little project is just to give me something to do and I was hoping to end up with some unique-colored birds running around the yard.

There is not much telling what you will get from the first cross, The females will not have a silver hackle though and none will be lavendar.

 

[FarmGirl01]

My creles are getting bigger.

 

[WallabyOfChaos]

There is not much telling what you will get from the first cross, The females will not have a silver hackle though and none will be lavendar.

I knew I wouldn't have any lavender ones in the first cross, just lavender carriers. That's disappointing about the silver hackle though.

I wish I could find a good source online for information about chicken color genetics.

My creles are getting bigger.

He is absolutely beautiful!

 

[HappyHenMama]

I'm pretty new to having chickens and my little Goldie and Sal just became parents to one chick named Nugget. I have a couple of questions about Nugget: Nugget has green legs but both parents have blue legs, how does that work? Also, I'm wondering if Nugget is a Cockrel? This pic was taken at 10 days old. What do you all think? Thanks, and I love my OEGB's!



See those green legs and you can see the blue legs on Mom.



And the one below gives a pretty good view of Nuggets comb.



There's a good pic of Nuggets parents in my Avatar of Goldie before she became a mother and Sal, my Roo who was going to be Sally when we thought he was a she. LOL!
Any help out there on sexing and also what color of birds are Goldie, Sal and Nugget? I mean what are they called? I have no idea so I thought I'd ask the experts.

 

[WallabyOfChaos]

Does anyone know where I can find some show quality crele's and bb reds. I need 2 crele pullets and a trio of bb reds. I'd love to find some in southern Illinois or southeast MO.

I had 2 pair of creles but while feeding one hen escaped and got retreived by my lab which didn't end well.

Have you looked on your local Craigslist?

 

[GotGame]

Your hen is a black tailed buff, your cock bird is a mix. The dark legs are the giveaway on him.

 

[FarmGirl01]

Have you looked on your local Craigslist?

I got mine at one of the show's.