New Brahma Group: Blue Partridge x Partridge, Plus Dark

[speckledhen]

Actually, the variety I have is fine for breeding with her Dark hen. If she took a splash boy, she would get Blue Darks, pretty darn cool.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I do have a Bash story. Apparently, he is much like my late Isaac was about hens fighting. Two days ago, broody Cora and just-off-broody-Bonnie got into a huge fight in the barn and Bash was out on range, didn't see it. I had to break it up because they were out of breath and Bonnie would not quit. Yesterday, they got into it in Bash's presence. He put the smackdown on them, big-time, jumped right into the fray, flogging them away from each other. Bonnie ran off. Today, again, those two hens clashed. Bash jumped them, pushing them apart. Tom grabbed Cora up, but Bash was still mad. He ran after Bonnie and gave her a resounding THUNK on the back of her head. Seems Bash is wise to who started that ruckus and he was right.

 

[1muttsfan]

Brains, brawn and looks, all in one package. Lucky girl.

 

[speckledhen]

Brains, brawn and looks, all in one package. Lucky girl.

That's my boy!

 

[speckledhen]

,,,and here are his sons and daughters. Poor Bash had to break up another two fights today. If those wenches make him keel over with a heart attack in his heat, I'm going to put the offenders in a crock pot, ack!

 

[Nats Chickens]

,,,and here are his sons and daughters. Poor Bash had to break up another two fights today. If those wenches make him keel over with a heart attack in his heat, I'm going to put the offenders in a crock pot, ack!
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Poor Bash... hopefully it doesn't come to that. next time we need chooks I am going to an auction house nearby and I am hoping there will be some Brahmas... and about 10 other breeds. LOL

 

[speckledhen]

I have ostensibly gotten a commitment to buy all my remaining Brahma chicks from a returning Brahma customer, but she can't pick them up until July 3 (post-surgery driving restrictions). She and I discussed it and she told me which chicks she wants me to definitely hold onto, but that I can try to find homes for some of the extra-extras, if someone wants a cockerel. I took photos for the ad I'm running and thought I'd post them here.

 

[speckledhen]

We have a mystery. My customer hatched the chick on the right out of my Partridge birds she got from me. Partridge male over two partridge hens. How do you get a Dark Brahma coloring from that, even if one of the parents was a daughter of my B.J., my Dark hen?

Genetics go like this:

Partridge male x Dark female = 100% Dark (hiding Partridge) males and 100% Partridge females

That would mean that's what Bash over B.J. would produce. So, her rooster can't be the progeny of Bash/B.J., only possibly the hens, or one of them. How could the gene pass on if she is not hiding silver? The genetics say nothing about that, a partridge hen hiding silver.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hmm.

I read this article about Gold one time, very interesting if you scroll down to the Don't Overcomplicate section (Bash!!!?). Could this be the reason?

https://poultrykeeper.com/poultry-breeding/the-other-type-of-gold-red/

 

[speckledhen]

Hmm.

I read this article about Gold one time, very interesting if you scroll down to the Don't Overcomplicate section (Bash!!!?). Could this be the reason?

https://poultrykeeper.com/poultry-breeding/the-other-type-of-gold-red/

It's clear as mud. I have no clue. From what I read about breeding darks and partridge together, would seem that Bash's daughter, a partridge, would only be able to produce a Dark-colored daughter if she was carried silver, but I have not seen anything that hinted it was even possible, even if a Dark was her mother, only that the Dark males could carry partridge/gold. I think it's more likely someone collected the wrong egg. She did say her 4H kids collected the eggs for her, that they were doing color experiments, which is one reason she wants more of the blue and splash partridge than the straight partridge males.