OK- birchen and ? makes ?

[Goose and Fig]

Was it lemon blue? Splash? I saw it on another post today. Silly me- never realized one of my banties- that is a chronic egg layer-is birchen. I also have a buff banty cochin #2 roo. #2 as in- he's never the "daddy", but......

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Probably the post about lemon blue.

Start with a birchen. Replace silver with gold and you have brown red. Then replace black with blue and you have lemon blue. It doesn't make any difference which gene you replace first.

 

[walkswithdog]

See you've been sitting there with the birchen I'm looking for all this time and using it for nothing LOL.

I have either a blue/red or lemon blue, or a demelanized black with red and I'm trying to work toward what they call Lemon Blue. And as Sonoran helpfully pointed out, that's the way to do it.

But I have to wait on getting what I am sure is birchen, or brown red, or lemon blue stock before I can take the next step. However, everything is down for shipping for summer. So I get to wait til fall. If you want to see the male I'm working off of, I'll repost.

I'm enamored of his coloration but not his type so I have a LOT of work to do. But it's fun, they're little, adorable and they don't eat much...