if i breed black to splash...

[silkielover5]

wondering what i would get if i bred my black rosecomb rooster to my splash hen
and if i bred him to a BBred hen (im thinking about getting one)

 

[TK Poultry]

I don't know about the BBRed cross but black x splash = 100% blue

 

[silkielover5]

kay thanks i was hoping more splash but i dont want another rooster so i guess ill have to live without

 

[TK Poultry]

cross the blue offspring and you'll get 25% Splash 50% Blue and 25% Black

 

[silkielover5]

ya but i dont have room for another rooster. in my rosecomb pen i only have room for a trio...stupid dog killed my pretty blue rooster

 

[kswaterfowl]

Crosses to a Bbred will produce birds that are a black-red. They come out mostly black with red leakage in the hackle and saddles, similar to a brown-red/brassy back but not really. They are somewhat hard to explain. We have a couple running around in the barn these days. They are from Katherine Plummer bloodlines years ago. We have some of birds that were a crele project, and hatched BBReds and Crele from hatching eggs from that project, then crossed the bbreds with nice blacks and hatched the black-reds, and had plans to keep working to create a new line of bbreds, but lost several birds over time to age and foxes, so now they run around in the barn and look pretty. They hatch multiple clutches a year, this year we got cuckoo/barreds, brassy back-ish, blues, blacks and one that looks like a brown red. Rosecombs were our first breed, but we no longer breed or show them other than whats "wild" in the barn.

 

[silkielover5]

I love rosecombs they are my favorite breed, i want to buy birds from her but she never has any for sale

and that sounds pretty do you have any pictures of them

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

only way to get splash is splash to splash, you get 100% splash
splash to blue you get 50/50 of each

or blue to blue as mentioned above you'll get 25% splash

there is no way to use a black and get splash in that breeding. Splash is two coipies of blue. Been that each parent contributes 1 copy of a gene, both parents have to have some blue in them.

yes the black to bb red will be largely black birds with some red leakage, back breed them and you will get more blacks similar and more bb reds

bred the splash to the bb and work your way towards blue reds also