Huh? (Del x BR/blu Amer = BROWN?)*~Post 73- new baby pix! Male?~*

[Illia]

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Ok, no speaking in foreign language on my thread, LOL. Explain those designations, please (not that it will make any sense to me)

Wheaten and Columbian.


Basically what a lot of Columbian patterned birds are. Although some are Partridge and Columbian. But still.

Anyway, if your Delaware did indeed carry E^R, the chick actually wouldn't turn out brown like that. I know it sounds weird, but birds that mock birchen or brown-red like yours are actually born brown-er than true birchens and brown-reds, in fact, a true one should be solid black and white. Yours I'm confident is Wheaten based.



Hey, breed it to a Wheaten based bird and then we'll all know.

Wheaten, Columbian, or simply Delaware-esque birds pop out, and you've got Wheaten. Birchen colored birds pop out, and you've got Birchen (E^R) Although of course it all depends on what "wheaten base" you breed it to.

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks for trying to help hopeless me, Illia. My friend, Ellie, in California owns this hen. The only male she has to breed her to would be a GL Cochin.

 

[Ellie]

or my easter egger with puffy cheeks!! Magnum. White with brown on wings.

 

[Illia]

Breed to the EE.

You'll get awesome colors and egg colors.


Plus your Easter Egger is duckwing based, which allows a bit of clear up. If a portion of the chicks from him and her end up wheaten or duckwing-esque, then that means the hen carries Wheaten. If they all end up mostly solid white or solid black or solid blue, then the hen carries E^R.

Hatch some chicks and let me see the photos of them when they grow up!

Oooh, also, breeding to the EE will make sex-linked colored layers.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, sorry, I forgot about the EE boy you kept, Ellie!