Orange Mottled Chicken!

[alohachickens]

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-...AAAAAAAB7o/sgsBsjyO6yI/s800/julychickens3.jpg
From an aloha project egg

This is an excellent looking roo. Bright vibrant reds, very, very little black. About 50/50 red vs. white. Even if this had the same body and size as a Speckled Sussex, the coloring is really different. Totally original color is the goal. On a SS/Buff Orp/NHR size body. Goal body type is dual purpose, hefty enough to eat roos, big enough hens to lay larger eggs. Going for a "generic" chicken-shaped body. With the ONLY difference being crazy calico colors and patterns. Just your typical farm bird - but in WILD colors!

This guy would be great crossed with Sussex, New Hampshire Red, and Buff Rock hens, I bet. Just put this exact pattern on any of those type of chicken breed bodies and we'd be there!​

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

So anyone have votes on which roo to keep put of my birds? (post on page 11) I am thinking Bluetail or Easter, but I just don't know! alohachickens said to not keep the barred roos, but beyond that and eliminating the dark partridge-like boys and the little guys, I am lost.
I am pretty sure that of the pullets Blackbeak, Digit, Snowflake, and Puffy are keepers, but what about Flecks, the red hens, and Calli?
Help me out guys!

 

[alohachickens]

Argh! It just deleted my post!

OK, try this again!

Roos:

#1 - Buttercup
#2 - Easter
#3 - Bluetail (Is he big? He looks like he might be by my NHR/Aloha rooster. Boring color, but if he is big, remember he carries the genes!)

Cull Cuckoo for sure. Peaches is cute, might want to see if you can re-home him first. His babies when crossed with Buff Orps and other hens, might be useful, so see if someone local wants him first . . . just in case!

Buttercup, not too much white, and a vibrant orange. I think with the hens showing a good amount of white, he'd be my first pick. Want to keep a good balance of light and dark on all of them. If your hens were mostly dark, and looked more like Buttercup, I'd suggest a roo with more white, like Easter.

Easter would be a great roo to cross with solid NHR, Buff Orp, Buff Rock, or even Speckled Sussex hens. If you could have two flocks, put Easter with big solid hens plus Goldy, and take the future hen chicks from that pen and put those future girls in with Buttercup!

Hens are looking great. Goldy doesn't show white but carries it. Could be a fun one with a Speckled Sussex roo. Snowflake and her twin - AWESOME. Digit - Intersting so far. Blackbeak and Cali, keep them and grow them out for a bit, they are looking pretty nice so far. I'm not seeing a whole lot that MUST go away at this point! Flecks is a bit dark, and the two brown hens, if they do not look bigger or heavier than the colorful ones, go ahead and cull them. But if they are bigger than the other hens, they are the NHR crosses and are there to improve your size.

Glad to see a lot of hens in there!

 

[the4heathernsmom]

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[the4heathernsmom]

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[silkie101]

wow beautiful chickens

 

[alohachickens]

The4, I just went in there and deleted a bunch of messages, there should be room now!

Tamara, keep an eye on these for ones that look a lot like a Sussex. There was one BIG hen in there that was half Aloha, half Sussex. She was perfect in size! But looks pretty much like a Sussex. She carries the weirder colors, though. SO - even if one is solid in color, or looks a lot like a pure Speckled Sussex, it is a KEEPER if it is big - the ones I sent you, some *might* be solid in color, but those solid ones could be helpful. Check them out closely before culling.

FYI - my flock is going to start looking VERY boring next year! When you cross a cool Aloha (like your rooster, Easter) with a nice, big buff or brown hen, you will get . . . . solid brown or light brown chicks. All of your cool colors will go away! But if you cross those back, the colors should return again. So keep some neat colorful little ones, but also look closely at the solids, like Bluetail and the brown hens, to see if they have any real improvement in size.

If anyone wants some neat, colorful little ones to use as "seed stock" to cross with larger birds (with a goal of making big colorful Alohas in about two generations of breeding) there are two local folks who will be raising BIG flocks that will start laying in November and December. I will be working on bigger sizes, so mine will be going through a period of boring solid color chicks for a little while. So folks looking for the colorful little chickens like Tamra's will have to go to Stephen, Larrissa, or Derek for eggs or chicks. Or, of course, you could buy eggs from Tamra herself! That's kind of the idea of me setting these other folks up with stock, so that we have the itty bitty colorful lines in some safe homes, while I focus less on color for a bit and work to improve the body type. I'll be pushing the size up on mine for a while.

I will be trying to get these new Aloha project guys on BYC to sell hatching eggs or live chicks to interested folks. These two individuals are talking about doing multiple Aloha pens using various roosters! They both have more room than I do.

 

[knjinnm]

What do you plan to use to put size on the birds?

 

[SuperPeacockman]

Okay, I have been watching this intently and I would like to put in my input. I think you guysnshould shoot for 50/50 with white and the red orange color. But I think it is very important that you keep some minimal black speckling especially on the neck and hackles. That combo just seems to look better!

 

[SuperPeacockman]

Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

Digit (hen)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/29884_alohas_028.jpg

Like digit! Also, is there any chance that any of the people involved in this could ship eggs to NY?​