Need Breeding Advise

[Arenas Chickens]

Well hello BYC! It’s been far to long!!

how is everyone?! I’m ‘doing’ which is better than not.

I have a question regarding my little Blue, some may remember I posted a ‘what breed is she’ post and questions about her broodiness. Well she IS a broody as I posted lol but I’ve had a bit more insight to her breed and in doing that research I was shocked to find that it is the hen who determines the color of eggs laid! Trueth? And that I should not breed her with a brown layer as her lineage will start laying green eggs... .... also trueth?

if so my question is this: should I breed her with a brown laying Golden Laced Cochin - Bantam?

this is some info I got from a hatchery in my area when I sent a pic and asked if they could pin down a breed, either of what she is or could have in her:

Definitely not an Andalusian. Lightly feathered legs would suggest somewhere in the lineage is a Marran but with that color eggs I would be skeptical. She has laced feathers which would be consistent with a Blue Americaucana, which produce blue eggs, but the comb type isnt right there either. The red leakage on the wings suggest a red (mahogany) parent. Its definitely not a standard breed. So Barnyar combo it is. Likely several generations so, beacuse I dont know who to get those combos in only two breeds. She is pretty. Possibly a Black Langshan and an Amerauanca. But I would have expected the feet to be green not white like a Langshan. Just my two cents.

This is Blue aka Mamma:

And her eggs with my RIRs as comparison:

I’d like to stay close to a breed already in her lineage and keep blue eggs. But I am also willing and curious to see what breeding her with something else would yield, I’m just not willing to put her with my RIRs Roos..... they’re big boys . So long as we are in the topic, what does it take to take a BYM and breed it back?

thanks BYC fam!!

 

[R2elk]

I was shocked to find that it is the hen who determines the color of eggs laid!

This is not true. Each of the parents contributes the genes that determine what the egg color will be.

 

[Arenas Chickens]

This is not true. Each of the parents contributes the genes that determine what the egg color will be.

Really? I did think that was odd, but then again chickens don’t follow rules

 

[R2elk]

Really? I did think that was odd, but then again chickens don’t follow rules

Chickens, like all living things follow the same genetic rules. One of the rules is that there are sex linked traits. In people, male pattern baldness is sex linked on the X chromosome.

Egg color is not sex linked.

One of the reasons that there are auto sexing breeds is because the barring gene is sex linked on the male chromosome.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

She looks like a second generation olive egger- olive egger (marans/legbar) x olive egger (marans/legbar).

You want to produce more chicks that look like her and lay blue eggs, right?

 

[Arenas Chickens]

She looks like a second generation olive egger- olive egger (marans/legbar) x olive egger (marans/legbar).

You want to produce more chicks that look like her and lay blue eggs, right?

I do. I was thinking of getting a cream legbar roo for her.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I do. I was thinking of getting a cream legbar roo for her.

If you can’t get a blue, black, or splash barred Easter egger, a cream legbar would be best.

 

[Arenas Chickens]

I think I’ve got a blue barred Easter egger lined up for her - Americana crossed with barred rock.

 

[Arenas Chickens]

Update:
So I got myself 2 ‘blue barred Easter egger’ Roos. Two totally different looking birds but assured same parent stock; Americauna x barrock. I am excited to see what they will look like as at the moment one looks like he will be a regular looking barrock (but almost cuckoo) Roo whilst the other looks like he’d be a regular ‘ol run of the mill grandpop white Roo with red streaks.

We also received our new babies, unfortunately we received them the day I ended up in emerg for unplanned surgery, so I haven’t been able to be as up close and personal with my newbies yet

The new flock are: Buff Orphingtons, Cuckoo Marans, Barrocks, Black Austrolarp, and a golden laced bantam-Cochin. I think there should be one more in that list but it escapes me atm. I do have a question regarding the bantams?
- My BF says they are “bigger than I expected them to be”. I assume a bantam breed would be very tiny in comparison to a regular chick? He thinks perhaps it has more ‘Cochin’ than ‘bantam’ in them. So the questions are: would that be an accurate statement that a Cochin and bantam would be the make or break of a size difference? And how would you get the ‘bantam’ back into the breed? I assume you would find a true golden laced bantam and breed them but my research isn’t yielding this ‘detailed’ of breeding practices; the breeding in or out of characteristics, with the exception of breeding the father/daughter for fixing or keeping of a breed quality.

thoughts? I’ll attach pictures of the littlins in another post as I am sure my description of my Roos makes for more questions and imaginations

 

[aart]

Americauna x barrock.

Are they really Ameraucana.....or Easter Egger?
And Barred Rock....spelling is important