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I love these kinds of questions!@dheltzel
Dennis -- some genetics questions for you. I plan to put up some of my own eggs to test my incubator mid to late Jan. I have the brooder all ready to go.
So
Black Ameraucana x Copper Marans (both chickens split for lavender) --
I should expect:
3/4 Black chicks, feather feet, rose comb, no way to sex
1/4 Lavender chicks, feathered feet, rose comb, no way to sex
Eggs: green/olive
Question: Will they have copper coloring on neck at all?
Black Ameraucana x Heltzel Olive egger (Welbar x Cream Legbar)
I should expect...
all black chicks? Or will some have coloring?
You mentioned them being sexilinked -- how do I sex them?
Eggs: ?? lighter green?
Thanks!
Pea and Rose combs are a lot alike, yet different. Both make it take longer to sex young birds than single combs, though not all single combs allow for early sexing. I had a strain of Lavender Orpingtons that took nearly as long to sex out as Lav Ameraucanas.Thanks so much -- I am a newbie but find this very interesting as well.
Oops sorry I did mix up pea combs and rose combs. To be honest they look kind of alike to me, at least from a distance. I guess both are hard to distinguish/gender at a young age.
Will the adult hens of the Ameraucana x Olive egger be all black at maturity? I assume the lavender split will have no effect on that cross since the olive eggers have no lavender gene and it is recessive. But it would be nice to have some color on the hens...
Also it sounds like there would be some danger of not being able to tell the two type of chicks apart if I don't mark them right as they leave the egg. Do I need to get little leg bands?