If you could create a breed or a variety of a breed, what would you make?

[jspeese]

From what I understand the gene for blue-shelled eggs is dominant so it may not be too hard to make a breed that resembles one of the ones you mentioned but which lays blue-shelled eggs.

 

[Cookies4renea]

I'd like to make a red partridge or lemon cuckoo marans.

Or to breed the colored egg gene into any of the larger full-bodied breeds like Orps or Jersey Giants.

I’m planning on working on that this year I’m in Lovelady Texas you breed your I’ll breed mind and we can have a play date for their offspring better to get several strains to get best traits. Let me know ho it goes. Yes

 

[SillyMissLily]

A white egg layer with a calm, laid-back attitude and winter hardiness.

California Greys seem like they might fit the bill, but I can't find a single breeder or even hatchery with them!

The girl in my profile picture was an Austra White (Australorp x white leghorn) and she was awesome. Now, I only had one and this doesn't represent the breed, but I think the Australorp breed made her cool as a cucumber and the Leghorn gave the white gene and small body size. She used to come strolling into my house to hang out with me since she could get over the 4 foot fence that none of the other fat hens could. This fence jumping got her into a losing battle with a neighbor's dog, though.

Have not been able to get my hands on this breed since Lily, but I currently have a California White that I'm pretty happy with. As far as winter hardiness, I live in Colorado and my town can go down to -30 on some nights. The Mediterranean breeds that I wasn't supposed to have all fared fine, with only frost-bitten combs. With a proper coop and buddies to huddle with I think a lot of breeds are hardier than we give them credit for.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

If we’re not restricted to what’s actually possible...I’d make a breed with hens that are “rooster feathered” ...

... and/or crowless roosters

 

[chickpeasoup]

any color variant of the barred gene, like red barring or blue/red barring in the same vain of blue laced red wyandottes. a barred chicken with wacky colors would be cool

 

[Ra_]

any color variant of the barred gene ... a barred chicken with wacky colors would be cool

I'm getting some of that.
I'll take a pic.

 

[Ra_]

Reese - 6 weeks

Out of 66 hatched, he is the only one who looks like that.
I was expecting a lot of them to look similar to that.
He is not what I am going for.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I love this topic and was hoping to see some projects others were working on.
I don't mess with trying to create a new breed. That's a ton of work but I do work with making new varieties.
I work with leghorns and like most I started with some whites and some browns. Since that seemed pretty limited I made what I knew the two could be used for Pyle.
Pyle didn't really fascinate me so I started looking into harder to find colors and as my collection grew so did my ideas for projects.
I'm a few years in now and have created a few.
Here's a few of them.
Blue on left. Lavender on right

Lavender

Barred mottled

Barred mottled

Black tailed buff

White tailed buff

Barred lavender

 

[danceswithronin]

I love this topic and was hoping to see some projects others were working on.
I don't mess with trying to create a new breed. That's a ton of work but I do work with making new varieties.
I work with leghorns and like most I started with some whites and some browns. Since that seemed pretty limited I made what I knew the two could be used for Pyle.
Pyle didn't really fascinate me so I started looking into harder to find colors and as my collection grew so did my ideas for projects.
I'm a few years in now and have created a few.
Here's a few of them.
Blue on left. Lavender on rightView attachment 1772561
Lavender
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Barred mottled
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Barred mottled
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Black tailed buff
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White tailed buff
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Barred lavender
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Really love the barred mottled, that's a gorgeous bird! The lavender is sharp too.

 

[BreanneRN]

I love this thread! Pics of beautiful, unusual, unique, maybe one of a kind mutt chickens!
Yay!