OEGB Colors

[DuckiesGarden]

Glad your doing good! Oegbs should look like regular old English game chickens, google old English game, they are the same in stance and tail angle, bantams are just way smaller

Thanks for the tip! That helps a lot just to know what to look for!

 

[Farmergreen]

So Chris if I take a fairly nice looking Crele Roo. (good color patterns but dull.) and cross him with some very good BBR hens I should get a better looking Crele roo?

 

[redchevy808]

Thanks for the tip! That helps a lot just to know what to look for!

No problem!

 

[MGOODMAN4]

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You can cross any of those in the duckwing group that I mentioned an at least one of the sexes of offspring should be pure and look the same as the color pattern of at least one of the parents.

like Silver Duckwing roo on BBRed hens would give pure Silver Duckwing pullets and Golden Duckwing roos.

Thanks for this info!!! Very helpful.

 

[MGOODMAN4]

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Some people absolutely will not cross any, they want them as pure as possible, and you got others that may not have a pure bird on their place, but most people fit in the middle somewhere...myself, I like keepin colors pure, that is why I have lemon blues/brown reds and brassy backs/blue brassybacks...they are the same birds, just a blue variety and black variety...

But really with crossing within a Duckwing group like I was saying, its really the same thing, its not like you get mutt colors, if you know how the genetics work your can get just as predictable results as crossing black varities with blue varieties.

BBRed X Crele would be a Non barred variety with a barred variety

BBRed X Silver Duckinwing would be a gold variety with a silver variety

BBRed X Red Pye would be a black variety with a dominant White variety

BBRed X Spangled would be a non mottled variety x mottled variety.

So its the same concept as breeding different varieties of the same pattern, you just got to know a little more about genetics to be able to predict them.

Where did you learn about all the genetics that go into this? I would love to read up on it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. New to OEGBs and I love them!