Project bird color....

[lildinkem]

I have a Buff Orp/Black cross. Your bird looks similar to my bird, except possibly a Blue/Buff. Most likely will breed true to a Black or Blue IF taken to a Black if you use him, and you may get some with Red leakage. I used mine since his Buff lineage was from a top exhibition breeder's Buff Orp line. And at the time the Black Orps in the USA had not seen the imports from the UK. I still use my BO/BLK, for the very same reason as you. I like the type, width and feathering of the offspring that he produced. I recommend you do small test hatches of 10 or so spaced out a month apart. The way genetics worked with mine, I seen some of the traits in offspring come from the hen's side and some come from the BO/Blk side. About every 10 eggs or so these traits will flip flop. I hatched every single egg to know how to use my mix. That is the way to get the best results. IF you choose to use him.

Some of his offspring

A nice variety is what you can expect.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I think using a light would work fairly well--that is pretty much what the pattern is, just you have the lemon wings and blue. He is really similar to a couple of my silkie project birds.

 

[heathersboers]

I think I am going to breed him to the light brahmas just to see what hatches out.... We will see

 

[Illia]

Technically speaking you can breed him to any Brahma color available in the US and most of them will give the same result. They're all Partridge based, with just a few differences (columbian, melanizer, or silver/gold)

 

[big medicine]

Well, what was the path that you took to produce him in the first place? Can you backtrack a bit, and pick up what you need?

 

[heathersboers]

We had a blue Brahma project going back then and some buff and light Brahmas mixed in there. We got the blue from cochins about 3 years ago.We quit pursuing the blue Brahma because we just couldn't get it right. I wish we had kept them all now: ( ill figure it out eventually...... Thanks all!!!

 

[syble]

if it was me, I'd take him and 1 buff brahma hen, 1 dark brahma hen, and heck even 1 light brahma hen, and hatch what they lay, then take the nicest females from those offspring and breed them back to him the following spring, that generation should yeild you lots to work with!
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[Celtic Hill]

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Im no genetic expert by far, but this is what i would do!