Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[NatJ]

I'm not going to have trouble getting Blue out of the flock, the way I'm struggling with Dom White, am I???

No and yes.
Dominant White can hide blue, although the birds you started with probably have one or the other or neither, not both.

If you've only got a few birds with blue, it shouldn't be too hard to get rid of.
And a little blue here and there might not be a problem, if you just want camouflage colors. Blue-and-gold can hide about as well as black-and-gold.

and how long till I see either a barred red, or better, a laced or penciled red???

I have no idea, but I'm busy watching to find out

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I'm not going to have trouble getting Blue out of the flock, the way I'm struggling with Dom White, am I???

and how long till I see either a barred red, or better, a laced or penciled red??? Aaaaaaargh!

(Ok, I'm tired, I'm hurting, the liquid assist isn't assisting, and some impatience is leaking thru. Also, I think I have another male to cull, maybe two, this week and I'm out of freezer space.)

I don’t have anything to add to what @NatJ said about blue. About barred, it’s another dominant color, so you won’t be seeing that unless you breed a bird with barring.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I don’t have anything to add to what @NatJ said about blue. About barred, it’s another dominant color, so you won’t be seeing that unless you breed a bird with barring.

RUG thru a BUNCH of barred offspring, almost all pullets. None had much (if any) in the way of leakage, just black and white barred, but most are still wandering around the yard, soon to start dropping eggs (hoped). I did sell off a couple.

and every cross with the CornishX throws the white birds with leaks, so I've picked up one of those, on average, each hatching. Thing Three, S. White, !Nom Quartus... which I've been aggressively culling back out. But I still have one leaky white pullet walking about.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

RUG thru a BUNCH of barred offspring, almost all pullets. None had much (if any) in the way of leakage, just black and white barred, but most are still wandering around the yard, soon to start dropping eggs (hoped). I did sell off a couple.

and every cross with the CornishX throws the white birds with leaks, so I've picked up one of those, on average, each hatching. Thing Three, S. White, !Nom Quartus... which I've been aggressively culling back out. But I still have one leaky white pullet walking about.

Just so you know, the barred pullets will give you sex links if you breed them- barred males and unbarred females.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I think I need to read this again and maybe chart for myself which genes, other than Barring, are sex linked, an don which chromosome. It won't do me much good to have sex linked barred offspring if they keep getting the Silver gene with the barring. I'm trying not to make well defined hawk targets

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm not going to have trouble getting Blue out of the flock, the way I'm struggling with Dom White, am I???

and how long till I see either a barred red, or better, a laced or penciled red??? Aaaaaaargh!

(Ok, I'm tired, I'm hurting, the liquid assist isn't assisting, and some impatience is leaking thru. Also, I think I have another male to cull, maybe two, this week and I'm out of freezer space.)

The fastest way to get red barring in my knowledge is

Red male×Barred female
I
V
Son of that back to mama

Supposedly that should make red barreds

 

[U_Stormcrow]

The fastest way to get red barring in my knowledge is

Red male×Barred female
I
V
Son of that back to mama

Supposedly that should make red barreds

That would be great, if Pretty Boy counts as Red. I'm so new to this, I don't know how to describe him, other than "mutt".

Is that Pattern Wheaten? I was looking last night and decided it wasn't Black-Breasted Red for some reason I don't even recall any more. The wings or the saddle color, I think???

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Oh, we have P2-01 #4 and #5

Number 4. Looks like #1, but even less white at the tips of the wings and on the butt. I can't be more accurate than that, I am w/o coffee. Its a horrible state I am quickly remedying.

Number 5 didn't make it. Blonde in color, looks like it was still attached to the shell, cut a vein or had a distended belly rip and bled out after hatch. Terrible mess. No photo.

/edit on further inspection, it pulled its insides out. Definitely NO PHOTO.

Shell colors were similar to the prior hatchings, and one a shade darker - true beige.

That leaves four left to hatch. Two in the beige range, one a little lighter, and one that's Comet brown, the darkest of the eggs set this time.

Hopefully, I will soon need 8 names.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

That would be great, if Pretty Boy counts as Red. I'm so new to this, I don't know how to describe him, other than "mutt".

Is that Pattern Wheaten? I was looking last night and decided it wasn't Black-Breasted Red for some reason I don't even recall any more. The wings or the saddle color, I think???

Well, Pretty Boy is both extended black and columbian, but pure for neither. I don’t know if there’s any way to describe that other than “mixed color”. He isn’t red, if red refers to pure red columbian. He isn’t wheaten either. In this case, he has the same genetics as the red x barred cross, but he lacks the barring.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

P2-01 #6 is "in process"

No mistaking which shell this one is from. its another of the medium beige-ish. That leaves 1 more of those, one lighter (which you can see in the background), and one darker egg (which is seen further in the background.

Mostly black (or blue, my eyes don't work so well under LED lighting and its not fluffy yet), with dark legs, and a much paler, more pronounced ridge where the comb will come in than the other birds

I know I shouldn't be lifting the incubator top for these pictures, but I'm living in an RV, it rained last night, and humidity in the camper must be 60%. Acceptable risk.