Questions on Dark Brown, Self Blue, and other genes in Old English Game Bantams

[KF0002]

Thanks for the link!

I was aware about the lavender gene and it being recessive. I plan to play around with it a bit with my two bb red hens. Thanks for the reminder though. I appreciate the great info. Hopefully it’ll help others in their own research. I promise I was trying to research this myself, but it can be hard fingering through files, so to speak.

As for using a ginger red, I’d really like to get a couple (the hens are beautiful), though I don’t want to buy 15+ chicks and spend >$100 in order to get 3-4 chickens. Obviously, I could order other breeds, but I’m just not interested right now. I’ll try to keep an eye out for something more local.
As for now, I can start on a bb red line and work to the ginger reds. Seeing as I need to outcross the d’uccle’s genotype anyway, I could do it with the bb reds.
Once again, I really do appreciate the advice and help. It helps open up the options when certain paths get blocked.

Yw! Keep me posted as you make progress in your project. I will eventually create a thread for my Silver Ginger Leghorn project, and may eventually do Ginger Red in them also. It will be pretty simple to do now that I have outcrossed to the Silver Ginger Games to bring Db into the Leghorns.

Best of luck with your project!

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Okay, tag me when you make your thread! I love reading your detailed explanations!
As for my own project thread, I’m literally just leaving the starting line. Both varieties of the game bantams and the d’uccles I have are 5-6 week old chicks.

 

[KF0002]

Okay, tag me when you make your thread! I love reading your detailed explanations!
As for my own project thread, I’m literally just leaving the starting line. Both varieties of the game bantams and the d’uccles I have are 5-6 week old chicks.

Okay will do! Those chicks will grow fast. My F1 Silver Ginger/Brown Leghorn project chicks are about a week old. I also ordered Silver Leghorns to use in the project to clean up the autosomal red. I'm glad to encounter someone else on a similar mission, just a different breed.

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Same!
I would love to see some ginger reds leghorns!

 

[KF0002]

Same!
I would love see some ginger reds leghorns!

Me too!