Just Because We Love Pics-Blue Orps & Others Today

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Could you post a pic of the blue barred rock?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I'll try to get a pic today and post it on 'Breeds'.

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

My friend Kate and I were thinking about breeding those, but naturally they would not breed true after that first generation. Still, I think they'd be cool-I'd either put Hawkeye with a blue Orp which would give barring to both sexes, probably, or Suede with a Barred Rock and the males would be barred.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Cyn, That might have been what I was remembering. I couldn't find the thread, can you?
What do you mean by 'not breed true after the first generation'?
Thanks,
Lisa
ps:
Here's a link to the blue barred chick.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=162466#p162466

eek! that's not the link I pasted! This is it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=162466#p162466

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

So could you ship in the spring.

 

[speckledhen]

Lisa, the way I understand it, say I breed Hawkeye to a Blue Orpington female and all the chicks of both sexes come out blue with barring due from the sire, when they breed among themselves, they probably not produce blue barred birds consistently anymore because blue is a dilute of black. You may have black birds, black with some barring, blue birds-I'm not sure the combinations you would get, and Tim Adkerson or someone else who is better at genetics than I could tell you better. Since two blue birds can produce blue, black or splash chicks, that's what I mean-a blue will not necessarily reproduce another blue.
I asked this question a long time ago and Tim told me that if you want blue barred birds that breed blue barred birds, you have to have a self-blue(lavender).