In this Breeding thread, we post our Breeding Wishes

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Here we post poultry breeds that we wish someone would create. It will be nice for everyone, because then we can create that chicken breed. Please post all of your chicken breed wishes here! say what kind of comb, what color/s the feathers, how cold or heat hardy,if it's a bantam or a large breed or in between, what color eggs it lays, how many eggs it lays, etc. I'm patatiently waiting! bring it on !

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I'm very much into Silkies and breed the ones I have for fun and sell the chicks. As far as colors, there really hasn't been any development on a deep red colored Silkie which would be gorgeous! There are so many colors I wish were and could be developed such as calico but I know that is really hard to obtain and steadily breed in or retain those colors. Satin Silkies are beautiful as well and I feel like they come in more variations that the regular type of silkies. I'll just list a few more colors because there are so many! Ok, silver partridge, lavender, porcelain, and I think a few others I haven't thought of yet that I probably will post later.

Here are some beautiful calico silkies I found in a thread on here. I can’t remember what thread it is though.

 

[nicalandia]

High Quality Parrot Beak, that look more at home in Jurassic Park than on my backyard.

 

[DarJones]

Some people could put in some time to good advantage learning about chicken genetics.

Rose comb comes from an inversion on chromosome 7 that flips one of the comb structure genes backward and at the same time whacks a large segment of a gene affecting sperm viability. The inversion is dominant meaning one copy is enough to show rose comb phenotype. The sperm viability gene results in sperm that can fertilize an egg lasting only 3 to 5 days where normally it would last 3 weeks or a tad more. There are two variants of the rose comb inversion, R1 and R2 where R1 affects the sperm motility gene and R2 restores the sperm motility gene while leaving the rose comb inversion. R2 is the most desirable variant since roosters have normal sperm viability. Unfortunately, the R2 variant has been found in very few chicken breeds.

Single comb/pea comb is on chromosome 1 and has a few known variants. Single comb is required to make a rose comb bird. You can't make rose comb without also having single comb on chromosome 1. As for stabilizing rose comb, that is simple to do. All it takes is making the right crosses to determine which roosters are homozygous for rose comb. Alternatively, a rose comb DNA test is being developed in Germany.

I've been working on blue egg laying Silver Laced Wyandottes since getting the first eggs in early 2014. Keith Bramwell was kind enough to provide eggs of his blue egg laying Brown Leghorns and I purchased some Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks from Jerry Foley. It has taken 9 years to get to the point where I have a few chicks that visually are silver laced and Wyandotte shaped and lay blue eggs. I have about 5 or 6 more chicks that so far look similar to the hen pictured. A few of them are rose comb. One more generation along with some DNA tests for the blue egg gene should be the tipping point where they breed true. Could I have achieved these results in less time? Yes, but I would have lost a few critical traits along the way. I want blue eggs, not tinted blue. I retained the zinc white gene for egg color which means my chickens will lay pure blue eggs that are not tinted by porphyrin.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8072931/

 

[nicalandia]

My All Time Wish Would Be: Pink Colored Silkies

 

[nicalandia]

The red looks like terminal sunburn. I guess something is making the color of the combs and wattles spread over the rest of the skin?

That is quite an interesting appearance, but I'm not clear on what causes it.

Some people like to shave their Game Stags, Ganoi are usually naked neck so people just shave the entire breast along with the legs.

 

[DarJones]

This pretty girl will 100% lay blue eggs. Note that she is straight comb. I will be crossing her to rose comb males as soon as she starts laying. She is 4 months old and should lay her first egg in about 6 to 8 weeks.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I’d also like to see blue laced sebrights and crested D’Uccles.

Sultans and Satins are pretty close. Though this boy is also pretty close

 

[ColtHandorf]

I'm going to be working on the Blue Silver-laced English Orpingtons, Lavender Silver-laced English Orpingtons, and Isabel Lavender-laced English Orpingtons again this year. Let's hope for better luck than the last time.

 

[nicalandia]

is that a real chicken, or is that a great photoshop job? because that is a REAL DINOSAUR!

100% Real