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Eliza1313
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I am also looking to help with breed conservation. The leghorns are recovering, I would like to stick with breeds that aren't doing as well population wise. Plan is to pull the ones that don't quite make the cut for purebred breeding stock for use in breeding sex-links.
http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/chicken-chart
So as long as I use a blue or black roo from a blue/black/splash color breed, I should be able to see the dot. That is good to know. Also wanting to breed for blue eggs using a Blue Ameraucana. Plan to cross a Barred Holland roo over a black EE to start off with so I should have some blue egg laying barred hens.
I have started down the rabbit hole, so to speak, with researching chicken genetics. Want to do much more, but for now I will stick with sex-linking for egg color. Even found out that Langshan chickens can lay a plum (purple tint over brown) colored egg. So that will be an interesting one to play with too.
Then there are the brown and green colors that would mean getting a couple more Barred Rocks. Just too many options to try all at once.
Just window shopping for breeds to get at this point. With what I already have I can create a brown egg laying sex-link, but that is common, and I can breed an F1 cross to use to get a better blue laying sex-link. So that is where I will start. Since I want to breed for egg color in the sex-links I am considering starting with hatching eggs so I will know the tonal qualities of the eggs the roosters came from. And that opens a whole other can of worms for me since I have not incubated eggs yet.
http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/chicken-chart
So as long as I use a blue or black roo from a blue/black/splash color breed, I should be able to see the dot. That is good to know. Also wanting to breed for blue eggs using a Blue Ameraucana. Plan to cross a Barred Holland roo over a black EE to start off with so I should have some blue egg laying barred hens.
I have started down the rabbit hole, so to speak, with researching chicken genetics. Want to do much more, but for now I will stick with sex-linking for egg color. Even found out that Langshan chickens can lay a plum (purple tint over brown) colored egg. So that will be an interesting one to play with too.
Then there are the brown and green colors that would mean getting a couple more Barred Rocks. Just too many options to try all at once.
Just window shopping for breeds to get at this point. With what I already have I can create a brown egg laying sex-link, but that is common, and I can breed an F1 cross to use to get a better blue laying sex-link. So that is where I will start. Since I want to breed for egg color in the sex-links I am considering starting with hatching eggs so I will know the tonal qualities of the eggs the roosters came from. And that opens a whole other can of worms for me since I have not incubated eggs yet.
