Need Info on Ameraucana Leghorn Crosses

[JadeFarms]

Can we see a photo of her?

I will get one in the morning!

 

[JadeFarms]

Can we see a photo of her?

Actually she looks just like a pure ameraucana but she has a more modified comb. She looks like this.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

She is pretty! Looks a bit like my Olive egger’s comb!
Post egg photos when you get them!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

But the color would be incorrect and the babies would be crested.

If you bred from an Ameraucana you'd have to breed out the pea comb, and muffs/beard (I believe, muff/beard is dominant right?)

 

[JadeFarms]

If you bred from an Ameraucana you'd have to breed out the pea comb, and muffs/beard (I believe, muff/beard is dominant right?)

Oh yea that’s true too. It would be better for Button to breed leghorn to araucana.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Oh yea that’s true too. It would be better for Button to breed leghorn to araucana.

I just thought Legbar might be easiest because they were created from leghorns originally anyways.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I spelled it right!

So, is it like the pigments will mix and doing a faded light blue, or is it some crazy genetic thing I'll have a hard time understanding?

I think it’s that the pigments will mix because I have a Leghorn/Orpington cross and her eggs are a very light cream/tan color. Not quite white but not really brown either LOL it’s like they are a combination of the white eggs from the Leghorn and the brown Orpington egg gene. So I think with an Am it should be similar. I believe the white lightens but I’m not entirely sure.

 

[lomine]

First, this combination already exists. It's called the Whiting True Blue.

Second, the white shell gene doesn't combine with the blue to make a lighter colored blue. Each bird carries 2 shell genes for color. There are 2 types, white or blue. The blue gene is dominate so a hen only needs 1 to lay a blue egg. In a first generation cross, all offspring will have 1 white gene from the leghorn and 1 blue gene from the AM. If you cross 2 second generations the offspring will have a 25% chance of 2 whites, 25% chance of 2 blues, and 50% of 1 white and 1 blue.

The brown coating genes are separate. Neither of these breeds carry the genes for brown coating so you won't be getting any green eggs.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

The white gene will dilute the blue gene. Why do you want to breed them together?

Ok. Well, eggs are why I have chickens, and so I thought if I used a Leghorn to increase production a little, while still having slightly blue eggs... I don't know sounded good in my head

 

[ButtonHoarder]

My understanding is to get a colored laying leghorn, is that correct Button?


Yes. I am very proud.

Yes correct.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!