Help!! How do you breed Mauve Orpingtons!?

[~cochinlover~]

How do you breed mauve orpingtons? Im super interested in learning! What crosses have to be made? Do they breed true? Can you use lavender and chocolate? They are so beautiful....but.... I just dont know much about how they work.

 

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

I've never even heard of them

 

[~cochinlover~]

 

[Sneebsey]

I believe they are blue and chocolate. Chocolate is sex linked recessive, so I would breed a chocolate cockerel over blue hens, then take any resultant mauve pullets back to chocolate to produce mauve cockerels.

Blue is incomplete dominant, so mauve x mauve would produce both chocolate and splash/choc (don't know what to call that) offspring as well.

ETA: a good laced blue such as the mauve hen shows, requires additional melanisers and lacing genes to achieve. These are likely only on the blue line, so will need to be bred for. Mauve cockerel offspring from BC1 could then be bred over blue hens again to get those genes back in.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You can't use lavender.
Mauve is blue and chocolate. Blue doesn't breed true exactly because of the whole blue, black splash thing. Chocolate breeds true and is sex linked.
To produce 100% mauve chicks you have to breed a splash and chocolate bird to chocolate.
There's other combinations that will produce some mauve chicks but not 100%.
Mauve Xs mauve produces mauve, chocolate and splash chocolate.

 

[Sneebsey]

How did I not think of using splash?

 

[~cochinlover~]

So, I will need
Choc (cockerel)×Blue

 

[The Moonshiner]

How did I not think of using splash?

Lol, you're slipping.

 

[~cochinlover~]

What crosses would end with what? I feel so "smart"

 

[Sneebsey]

Just rusty. The sex-linkage still stands. A female may only be chocolate or not, she has only one slot for the gene. A male may be pure or impure for chocolate, therefore he can hide the gene.

Chocolate over Splash hens would produce mauve pullets and blue split cockerels, hiding but not showing chocolate. The mauve pullets back to a chocolate cockerel would produce mauve and chocolate offspring of both genders.