Lemon Blue Cochins~~***BRAND NEW PICTURES***~~~

[ChickenCrazy123]

They are lovely ~! I can't wait to see them when they are mature.

Thank you

yeah I can't wait for them to mature and I will definitely post pictures when they do

 

[ChickenCrazy123]

X2!! The are gorgeous. Nice people are posting pics here again even though it's just one person. Maybe that's something I should get around to a bit later?

Thank you

so are yours I really like Bruce he is beautiful

 

[County Boy]

Thank you   so are yours I really like Bruce he is beautiful

Thanks- he's the main man around here and everybody know it.

 

[NYREDS]

No, lemon blue is not accepted as a standardized variety by the APA.

but it is an accepted variety in the ABA Standard

 

[mibirder]

With winter around the corner I thought I should update regarding my Lemon Blue Project. This (second) season, I bred from two pens with 2 roosters and 5 hens each. 3 males were brown reds and one was a Lemon Blue. With pen 1 (2 BR males) were four blue hens nd one birchen hen. In pen 2 (1 LB and 1 BR male) was one BR hen, two LB hens, and one BR frizzle hen.

I currently am growing out about 40 chicks. I don't have the exact numbers but there are a few LB splash, BR, LB, and LB and BR frizzle. Te oldest are about 4 months and the youngest about a month. THe goal is to get enough matured to split and back cross as well as swap pen to pen for next year.

Dave

 

[wwmicasa1]

With winter around the corner I thought I should update regarding my Lemon Blue Project. This (second) season, I bred from two pens with 2 roosters and 5 hens each. 3 males were brown reds and one was a Lemon Blue. With pen 1 (2 BR males) were four blue hens nd one birchen hen. In pen 2 (1 LB and 1 BR male) was one BR hen, two LB hens, and one BR frizzle hen.

I currently am growing out about 40 chicks. I don't have the exact numbers but there are a few LB splash, BR, LB, and LB and BR frizzle. Te oldest are about 4 months and the youngest about a month. THe goal is to get enough matured to split and back cross as well as swap pen to pen for next year.

Dave

Dave,

I would love to see pics of the chicks. Did you get more LB from pen # 1 or Pen # 2? I'm putting my BR roo in with 2 LB Splash hens & a Blue hen. My LB boy is going in with 7 LB hens. I'm eager to see what I get in 2014. I'm hoping the color starts breed more true. Are yours LF or Bantam? Mine are LF.

 

[mibirder]

Mine are all bantams. I had a busy summer with hatching chicks, building a new barn, and keeping up with all the regular chores! With all the work and now many days of rain I haven't had time to get many pictures but hopefully can get to it this week.

Pen 1 produced slightly more than half of the LBs, although they are a bit darker blue due to melanizers discovered in the blue hens. I'll likely continue with the lighter ones once the molt adult feathering so I can see their tone better. Pen 2, as expected produced all the frizzles, about 70% of the BRs, and the Splashes. Ideally Splash x BR gives all LB so I'm planning on setting that pairing next year. I'm also planning for LB x LB hoping for more Splashes to use in breeding. The chicks will be split for a few genes as I'm not sure how clean my blue line is so it may take a while to clean up the LBs from pen 1. Because pen 2 were all ER/ER chicks theu should be a shorter path to consistency.

The frizzle chciks are just something that happened along - I wasn't planning for that hen! Actually I suspect that she is pure frizzle (F/F) as she's quite pathetic looking and all chicks from her are correctly feathered frizzles in LB and BR. I'll test mate females next year to see if they produce any smooth feather chicks so I could use them for breeding normal LBs down the road.

My adult stock isn't too bad considering their rarity - I do have some issues with male combs and shafting on females especially the female BRs. The LBs are pretty good color, less shafting and good breast lacing. All 4 males have better cushions and feet than the average females.

Interesting I have two Jamie Matts' bantam x LF BR females that I used this year. They are too big for true bantams and I'm considering tinkering with picking up a trio of LF Blues/Splashes to try to start a LF LB project. That will depend upon finding appropriate Blue stock. These are about the only Birchen (ER) birds in LF that I've seen so it should be easier to get to the true LB pattern in LFs rather than the non-ER crosses. Time will tell.

I'm hoping for four or five breeding pens including the LF next year to get enough stock together as an established line before cutting back to a more manageable number in years 4 -5. Hopefully in year 3 I'll start to see a solid, consistent line established to continue with in the future.

I'll get some pictures together of the chicks in a day or two.

Dave

 

[NanaKat]

I'm thinking this girl is a Lemon Blue. She is out of a test pen. She is out of a Blue hen and a Blue/Lavendar Roo. Am I correct on the color?

 

[mibirder]

Nana -

On Lemon Blues, the lacing is generally limited to the hackle and breast on hens. Additionally, it is the reverse of what you've got - "lemony" on the edge and blue on the feather body.

If I had to guess I'd say a variant of blue laced something, possibly on a wheaten base (ewh) rather than on a birchen base (ER). The wheatens tend to have much more body lacing than the birchens.

Dave

 

[NanaKat]

Thank you Dave.