In talking about color, don;t worry overly much. White tipping is the best and you will have some red bleeding through on the neck. But don;t sacrifice the type for the color. If they are split to MF then no worries. that gene is there and it will come out once bred to another MF. A lot of folks don't understand that.
I prefer to pick my white tipped girls over my more solid black with the red bleeding through but I go with type first. Color and pattern are easy to achieve, type is much more difficult.
Below are two pullets I hatched out 6 months ago. Came from the same breeding pen. Fortunately, I like the type on the more white tipped pullet rather than the darker one. Bred back to my MF roos, I get yellow chicks most of the time and better white tipping on the MFs they produce. Even the chicks that hatch out looking Mottled will grow up to be extremely useful in the breeding pen because they carry the genes I need and help to keep the white tips that can be so hard to get on the MFs correctly. You have to understand the MF pattern to know that there can only be a certain amount of white on the tips of the feathers but that is getting way down the road in this breeding program and we still have such a long way to go.
Gosh, I digress! Okay, so you see these 2 girls. They are 6 months old in these photos. The one without much white won't get much more on her but the one with some white tipping can certainly get a lot more as she matures. Not a lot but some.
On the question you have about the blue and light tan, I would have to see but I do not breed blue into my program. I don't want it popping back up later when someone else has it hiding in their genes, too, and I breed them together. Light tan....maybe, depending on what the pattern looks like on the feathers but remember, we are shooting for vermillion. However, buff Columbians have been used in many programs so some soft coloring can come out.
Again, not sure if I helped.
I prefer to pick my white tipped girls over my more solid black with the red bleeding through but I go with type first. Color and pattern are easy to achieve, type is much more difficult.
Below are two pullets I hatched out 6 months ago. Came from the same breeding pen. Fortunately, I like the type on the more white tipped pullet rather than the darker one. Bred back to my MF roos, I get yellow chicks most of the time and better white tipping on the MFs they produce. Even the chicks that hatch out looking Mottled will grow up to be extremely useful in the breeding pen because they carry the genes I need and help to keep the white tips that can be so hard to get on the MFs correctly. You have to understand the MF pattern to know that there can only be a certain amount of white on the tips of the feathers but that is getting way down the road in this breeding program and we still have such a long way to go.
Gosh, I digress! Okay, so you see these 2 girls. They are 6 months old in these photos. The one without much white won't get much more on her but the one with some white tipping can certainly get a lot more as she matures. Not a lot but some.
On the question you have about the blue and light tan, I would have to see but I do not breed blue into my program. I don't want it popping back up later when someone else has it hiding in their genes, too, and I breed them together. Light tan....maybe, depending on what the pattern looks like on the feathers but remember, we are shooting for vermillion. However, buff Columbians have been used in many programs so some soft coloring can come out.
Again, not sure if I helped.
