Mottled + Splash =

[bikergirl]

If I have a Blue Splash Cochine(roo) and a Mottled Cochin(hen) what will I get?????

Here is the roo. . . I think

No hen yet

 

[ve]

If the hen is black you will have all blue chicks.If is blue-blue and splash,no any mottled.Mottled is recesive and do not show in F-1.When you mate them whith the mother -50% motled.If matebrother and sister-25%

 

[Matt A NC]

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F-1 can show very light mottling(barely tipped feathers) in the youngsters. It should molt out before they get to adult feathers. In a couple years the same F-1 can developed tipped feathers in new feathers during/after a molt. If that happens, as they age with each molt the mottling will become more visible.

Matt

 

[bikergirl]

That was way over my head lol . . . but I think I got it . . . some what

So what if I freed this roo Blue Splash

With this Blue hen then what will I get

 

[Kev]

Basically what they said that in this cross, none of the birds will be mottled.. but mottled can be a little weird, such as showing up on young(cross) birds which then lose them at their first adult molt, and maybe show it again when they're really old.

However.. if your goal was blue mottleds, simply breed those cross chicks back to any pure mottled. Sex of either parents doesn't matter much so just go with the best type birds to use for breeding.

You'll get a few blue mottled chicks from this cross. Other chicks will be pure black, pure blue or mottled. Many of the pure blacks and blues will be carrying the mottled gene though- not all, just most.

Then if you keep the blue mottleds and breed those to mottleds again you are set for a pure breeding mottle strain that throws blue mottleds too.

Basically the birds have to be pure for the mottling gene to show it more consistently.. blue is the ridiculously easy part.

 

[Chickndaddy]

The female looks lavender to me. Not Andalusian blue, although I could be wrong.

 

[Matt A NC]

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If the girl is Blue, then the chicks would be 50% Blue and 50% Splash. "mathmatically".

If she is self-Blue(aka. lavender), then I think you would get all blues in the frist generation(F1). However 50% of those chicks would carry the lavender gene and when breed will produce a certain percentage of lavender offspring.

I am not completely sure about the lavenders and may have the percentages wrong on them. The blue x splash I am sure about.

Matt

 

[bikergirl]

Thanks for all the info guys!!!

 

[Henk69]

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100% are carriers...

 

[bikergirl]

New pick of the Splash Man! Hes not so splash but I love him