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[CayuseRanch]

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Awww...gotta love the babies.
No idea what brassy blue or Shamo are. What type of chicken will they be?

 

[GotGame]

the blue brassy are old english, bantam shamo are...bantam shamo

...I will post some pics

 

[al6517]

Good lookin chicks you got there.

AL

 

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A few of my Old English Blue Brassy Backs....

My pair of Bantam Shamos...

 

[GotGame]

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thanks al

 

[GotGame]

When you breed blue brassy back to blue brassy back, you get 3 colors of birds...

Brassy Back

Blue Brassy Back and Blue Brassy Back Sport...

 

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Here is a Blue Brassy Back Sport Rooster

 

[al6517]

Are you refering to the color Sport as an off or not anticipated color ??

AL

 

[Sooner]

Al are you home taking it easy?

I am having a wonderful day! The sun is shinning, very little wind & a chance of rain this week! I am looking forward to the end of the week, I'm taking a 3 day weekend!

 

[GotGame]

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yes, the sport is an off color but is anticipated, anytime you breed a blue to a blue (except for self blue) you will get a Black bird, a Blue bird, and a Sport or splash. I am told us old english people are the only ones that call them sports, they are what everyone else calls splashes, basically it is a black that has been diluted twice, where a blue is a black that has only had one dilution gene added to it...but you take a sport and breed it to the black variety, say take a blue brassy sport hen like the one posted, and breed it to a straight brassy back cock and you will get all blue brassy backs. Andalusion blue is actually just the result of a dilution gene added to black....some people say sports bred to the parent variety is the best way to get good even colored blues, as long as the sports are as cleanly colored as that sport hen....