Production Blue Variants?

[TheGreatEscapees]

RIR is Rhode Island Red, but what kind of "BA" is supposed to be involved?

@NatJ the Blue Australorp.

 

[NatJ]

@NatJ the Blue Australorp.

If Blue Australorps have the silver gene (very likely), then yes a cross of Blue Australorp rooster with Rhode Island Red hen could probably produce daughters with silver leakage, and some salmon or gold/brown color in the breast.

If the cross is the other direction, Rhode Island Red rooster and Blue Australorp hen, I would expect all leakage to be gold (cream, red, brown, buff, something in that general set of colors).

 

[TheGreatEscapees]

If the cross is the other direction, Rhode Island Red rooster and Blue Australorp hen, I would expect all leakage to be gold (cream, red, brown, buff, something in that general set of colors).

Oh ok! So would that just mean that the "standard" Production Blues are Rhode Island Red rooster x Blue Australorp hen, and Yogurt and Ombre are the other way around? Would Spidey being black instead of blue cause the flecks instead of lacing on the hackles? But that still leaves the mystery of the green legs and mulberry coloring though. . .