Impossible colors and patterns

[AquaEyes]

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That makes for interesting mind-pictures!

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver laced and pearly brahmas
And pretty silkies all in a row.

I'm not allowed to bend over, and my knees don't do much squatting or kneeling before they break*, so the kind of big mixed perennial beds I used to keep are outside my ability these days. I'm not into herbicide and bark, either, and I've wanted chickens for ages and am using the shaggy garden as an excuse to indulge myself now. Something new to think about, too, which is always good for the aging soul. And I can point to the possiblility of eggs, meat, and gourmet consomme when the farmer part of my brain protests.

Poultry keeping is full of nice intellectual challenges; trying to figure out how to make new varieties is one of the best.






*59 years of farming while clumsy, including multiple dislocations of the shoulder, hips, knees, ankles, and costal cartlage= less well able to move than I might be.

Make a raised bed and get one of those kneel-or-sit things I've seen for gardeners.

Xmas is coming......

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'm not allowed to bend over, and my knees don't do much squatting or kneeling before they break*, so the kind of big mixed perennial beds I used to keep are outside my ability these days. I'm not into herbicide and bark, either, and I've wanted chickens for ages and am using the shaggy garden as an excuse to indulge myself now. Something new to think about, too, which is always good for the aging soul. And I can point to the possiblility of eggs, meat, and gourmet consomme when the farmer part of my brain protests.

Poultry keeping is full of nice intellectual challenges; trying to figure out how to make new varieties is one of the best.






*59 years of farming while clumsy, including multiple dislocations of the shoulder, hips, knees, ankles, and costal cartlage= less well able to move than I might be.

Make a raised bed and get one of those kneel-or-sit things I've seen for gardeners.

Xmas is coming......

Had a kneeler since the late eighies: can't use it any more. The beds in the flatter parts of the yard are being transformed to raised beds over time, but the entry yard is precipitously steep and has always been problematic to keep clean, since it was, before we fenced my yard off from the rest of the hayfield, a place where my father had stacked Canary Grass hay, and I am so uninterested in fighting those stolons any longer that it would be hard to find something for which I have less enthusiasm.

On the other hand, I have great enthusiasm for enclosing the bed and converting it to ornamental bantams (and leaving the more robust shrubs to enrich their habitat).

 

[tadkerson]

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You can make the lace at tip of the feather heavier (like a small spangle) in a chicken by adding the dark brown gene to the phenotype of a columbian restricted single laced bird.

By producing single laced birds that only have on pattern gene, you can thicken the lace.


Tim

 

[Henk69]

I think your best bet for making a black spangled blue chicken is to remove Pg, and add Ml and/or charcoal plus columbian (for contrast).
Maybe no drop shaped spangle but a halfmoon shape spangle.
Note that Ml is linked to Pg, eg in blue andalusians.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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That's wonderful: short of a mad scientist's lab, what's the breeding path best designed to achieve that end?

 

[Henk69]

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That's wonderful: short of a mad scientist's lab, what's the breeding path best designed to achieve that end?

You need a blue bird without Pg, and a suitable Ml-donor (without Pg, eg a Ml based quail). Lakenvelder could donate charcoal and columbian.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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Who has those pearl Brahma beauties?

 

[nicalandia]

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Db would also restrict on E base i.m.o.
Gold or silver groundcolor would show up.

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I dare to disagree with you guys here...

seems like I was Dead Wrong here guys, its possible to have Black and Blue all together thanks to Ml, Db and E or ER... How do I realized that? well I have a 11 month old chick that is showing rudimentary black spangling on a blue background he also have Black feathers.... also some white feathers but I believe this to be not related to Melanotic

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I dare to disagree with you guys here...

seems like I was Dead Wrong here guys, its possible to have Black and Blue all together thanks to Ml, Db and E or ER... How do I realized that? well I have a 11 month old chick that is showing rudimentary black spangling on a blue background he also have Black feathers.... also some white feathers but I believe this to be not related to Melanotic

A glimmer of hope!

So what are the breedlines that led to this wonder of chickenhood?

(Plz excuse any possible daffiness: it decided to be summer here, finally, and I managed to overheat rather badly)

 

[Moochie]

Impossible color and patterns..
Pink barred rock..... A lighter pink would be the base color, and a hot pink would be the barred pattern.