Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[campingshaws]

I had light splash/lavender orps from an auction that I called Opal and Iris. They looked like big clouds floating through the yard. You definitely need an Iris.

Good idea, and speaking of Iris, a friend dug this up last year -- from the woods and this year it bloomed and now I think I need about a dozen wild Louisiana Iris -- and one nice tame Iris that is a barred Isabel!

Ours in the pond bloomed recently!

 

[ChicKat]

Yes ! she was with a Cream Legbar male -- so all she could do was split -- however -- all the babies from that pairing would be barred!

 

[campingshaws]

Yes !  she was with a Cream Legbar male -- so all she could do was split -- however -- all the babies from that pairing would be barred!  

The isabels all have nice feathering. Some of the splits are nothing but fuzz.

I'm hoping to reunite YB (yolk butt) with the rest soon. He preened and has a fluffy bottom now, which helps hide any bits.

 

[ChicKat]

Love that name YB --

 

[ChicKat]

The isabels all have nice feathering. Some of the splits are nothing but fuzz.

I'm hoping to reunite YB (yolk butt) with the rest soon. He preened and has a fluffy bottom now, which helps hide any bits.

Interesting -- about the feathering. The three I pictured above had pretty raggedy looking feathers a couple of days ago - and I wondered if it was that lavender dilution can make the feathers degraded stuff going on -- Now today they looked pretty good. If you check under the chins of the male and the one female, they look scruffy -- but I don't know if that is because of the way they were drinking and eating out of the cage cups -- or some feather growing in. --

Your observation makes me wonder if something about that legbar's feathering gene is more slow-growing.

 

[ChicKat]

Ours in the pond bloomed recently!

Spectacular!!! I NEED that! -- wow. Wonder how many years it would take my one to be that prolific.

 

[campingshaws]

The isabels all have nice feathering. Some of the splits are nothing but fuzz.


I'm hoping to reunite YB (yolk butt) with the rest soon. He preened and has a fluffy bottom now, which helps hide any bits.

Interesting -- about the feathering.  The three I pictured above had pretty raggedy looking feathers a couple of days ago - and I wondered if it was that lavender dilution can make the feathers degraded stuff going on -- Now today they looked pretty good.  If you check under the chins of the male and the one female, they look scruffy -- but I don't know if that is because of the way they were drinking and eating out of the cage cups -- or some feather growing in.  -- 

Your observation makes me wonder if something about that legbar's feathering gene is more slow-growing.  

I should mark them. It's my general experience that slow-feathering chicks are roos, and early feathering are pullets. It's not fool proof, but I was right on 6/7 of my bantam cochins.

 

[ChicKat]

I should mark them. It's my general experience that slow-feathering chicks are roos, and early feathering are pullets. It's not fool proof, but I was right on 6/7 of my bantam cochins.

That would be a good thing to track. I remember when my first female Cream Legbar had bigger tail ffeathers than the male -- and I thought things were upside down..... Later, of course, his grew in --

 

[The Moonshiner]

A few F1 project chicks.
I know the F1s arent nearly as exciting as your F2s but theyre on their way.

From left to right.
Silver rooster over isabel hen F1 chick
Straight isabel chick
Cuckoo rooster over isabel hen F1 chick
This is a chick thats going to be used in my barred isabel project.
Ive also got a pen with an isabel rooster over cuckoo hen but I havent hatch any of her chicks yet.

Same silver over isabel F1 chick
Same cuckoo over isabel F1 chick

Same straight isabel chick
Cuckoo rooster over silver hen F1 chick

 

[cjwaldon]

We'll have so much genetic diversity with several of us working on this project.