• giveaway ENDS SOON! Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest: Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect CLICK HERE!

Mottled and Split Orpingtons

Jbowman8716

Hatching
May 23, 2020
9
4
9
If I put a black split to lavender rooster over a mottled lavender hen, what are the color outcomes?

Will half be a split to mottled?
Half black and half lavender with half of them being mottled and half being a split?
I can’t seem to figure out how this crossing is going to work.
 
Lavender and mottling are both recessive so none of the offspring will be mottled but all will carry it (split for mottled)
You hen will pass on her lavender gene and your rooster has a 50% chance of passing on his.
50% chance of lavender chicks. 50% chance of black split to lavender chicks.
 
Lavender and mottling are both recessive so none of the offspring will be mottled but all will carry it (split for mottled)
You hen will pass on her lavender gene and your rooster has a 50% chance of passing on his.
50% chance of lavender chicks. 50% chance of black split to lavender chicks.

I have pullets and cockerels that are black split to mottled and lavender. I also have lavender mottled pullets and cocks. Both sets from unrelated bloodlines. What are the outcomes and which ways would be best to set up future breeding pens? I know that the first cross would be black cock over lavender mottled hens, and vise versa. But after the first cross what would be the next step in a family/clan breeding system?
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom