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Skin on soles or the whole leg? Solid black/blue with yellow legs are very HARD to make. Requires specific pattern base(eb<partridge> or ER<birchen>) plus melanizers to make them solid colored. Plus yellow skin and Id for yellow legs(doing on ER base a little trickier- so far nobody knows why some have black shanks while others get colored shanks). Don't think it's possible with your stock, if I remember what Orps are based on(think E, which makes it impossible to have leg color other than black on black/blue birds).
For yellow soles, all you need is to introduce yellow skin. Yellow skin is recessive though, would be necessary to outcross then cross siblings again or back to a yellow skin etc. Good thing is, once you have yellow skin in both sexes, you are set for this, no more 'surprises' showing up in this regard later.
Any bird or breed with yellow skin(either whole leg yellow or only soles.. even willow legs will work ok as that's just yellow skin plus pigmented legs) will do.. but easier to keep the solid color is to limit outcrossing to solid black(blue or splash will be fine too, as long as no color leak on saddle/wings). Barred or Black Rocks, Jersey Giant(if they have yellow soles?)... or even other naked necks with yellow/willow legs- but again you want solid colored black/blue body to avoid color leakage problems.
If you have yellow soles showing on even just one bird, it's proof of it floating around in your birds. Keep and breed those, no need to outcross.
Skin on soles or the whole leg? Solid black/blue with yellow legs are very HARD to make. Requires specific pattern base(eb<partridge> or ER<birchen>) plus melanizers to make them solid colored. Plus yellow skin and Id for yellow legs(doing on ER base a little trickier- so far nobody knows why some have black shanks while others get colored shanks). Don't think it's possible with your stock, if I remember what Orps are based on(think E, which makes it impossible to have leg color other than black on black/blue birds).
For yellow soles, all you need is to introduce yellow skin. Yellow skin is recessive though, would be necessary to outcross then cross siblings again or back to a yellow skin etc. Good thing is, once you have yellow skin in both sexes, you are set for this, no more 'surprises' showing up in this regard later.
Any bird or breed with yellow skin(either whole leg yellow or only soles.. even willow legs will work ok as that's just yellow skin plus pigmented legs) will do.. but easier to keep the solid color is to limit outcrossing to solid black(blue or splash will be fine too, as long as no color leak on saddle/wings). Barred or Black Rocks, Jersey Giant(if they have yellow soles?)... or even other naked necks with yellow/willow legs- but again you want solid colored black/blue body to avoid color leakage problems.
If you have yellow soles showing on even just one bird, it's proof of it floating around in your birds. Keep and breed those, no need to outcross.
