Lemon blue question?

[Mary Of Exeter]

So I was sitting here looking at all the pretty lemon blue pictures, and I wondered just how did people get the color.

So what is the best way to produce them? Or at least, start out the project anyway, as I know these things take some time to perfect.

 

[Krys109uk]

To get lemon blue you need birchen (ER). Lemon blue is basically gold birchen with blue replacing the black. How you went about it would depend upon the breed.
A type of pseudo birchen effect can be caused by crossing a buff with a blue but this is not real lemon blue & cannot be stabilised.

 

[Goose and Fig]

S0 what if i cross a buff with a BBS?

What if I cross a BBS Cochin with a buff Orp? Ooo- I might do that!

 

[Krys109uk]

Of you cross a buff with a splash you will not get a real lemon blue. You will get a bird with buff on its head head & down onto the shoulders & breast towards the back of the bird being blue. It will not breed true, it will be a mix.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Thank you for the information

I had always thought Lemon Blue was made with Buff and blue birds.

So I'm guessing if I wanted Lemon blue looking Orpingtons, I'd just have to make the mixes, since I've never seen a birchen Orp.
Same with Polish birds, which would look really neat with that coloring.

 

[JenEric Farms]

so...Lemon Blue Cochin would be a birchen with a blue? Is that correct?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
With blue replacing black and gold replacing silver.

 

[JenEric Farms]

What about lavender with birchen?

 

[Krys109uk]

So I'm guessing if I wanted Lemon blue looking Orpingtons, I'd just have to make the mixes, since I've never seen a birchen Orp.

Well they never really look like the real thing. Personally I'd outcross to a birchen then breed for type & go from there.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Lavender is a recessive gene, so you would have to have two copies for it to have any affect (in other words, it would take a minimum of two generations). And not only would it dilute the black pigment, it would also dilute the gold. It might be pretty, but it wouldn't be lemon blue.