Is red more dominant than blue?

[redchicken]

Okay so I am very sure these birds are offspring of a red and a blue chicken (This was what I was trying to do). If they are the babies of this mix then why are they all red except for a little black speck are their necks?

 

[loveourbirds]

what breeds were you using, and what exactly where you trying to accomplish?

red is a standard color, blue is created by crossing white/black. that's why most blue does not breed 100% true.

most people will take a bird that is black where they want it to be blue, then cross in a blue bird of similar lines.

 

[redchicken]

I bred a red polish to a self blue polish hoping to hatch a chick with most of the red color and the better qualities of the blue polish. I had the red polish separated from their mates for a few weeks and I hatched out three completely red and one mostly black except for a brown color around the eyes. I think the black chick is self black with chocolate coloring around the eyes which is possible.

 

[loveourbirds]

I would post about this on the polish site for the best advice.

I can try to help you through this if you cant find any better information. but im far from an expert in polish breeding - I just got my first polish this year.

with old English, I am more familiar with the colors, if you breed self blue to any color offspring will normally be the other color. I found this out when I tried to breed wheaten to self blue. ive also used the self blue to even the color in blacks.

if it were me, I would breed several pure bred reds. taking the best rooster over larger more dominate hens. then select my best rooster from that mating to use with the red blue crosses you just made.

just for fun I would also reverse breed, some blue hens under your best red rooster. from this mating I would select the ones marked like your black/chocolate.

the only way I know of breeding pure chocolate is with the dun gene. I have it in my old English stock to breed fawn/chocolate. im pretty sure it also exists in orpingtons and wyandottes.

I hope this helps.
brian