Rosecomb Thread

[sjarvis00]

if I were interested in breeding and maintaing black I would be buying that trio, they look as though they will make decent breeder birds. If you get too many of your F1 from the wheaton x with black with good enough type to keep working from let me know, that may be worthwhile to get back to wheaton and you would not have to cull as many, keep me in mind if you would.

 

[cns2782]

Heres one of my oldest cockerels from this year (Didnt get my breeders til April so he was a mid-may hatch) Almost finished growing his tail in.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Looking good for such a young bird. Where did you aquire your breeders?

 

[cns2782]

Rick, Leslie, and Dr Patterson. Have some nice ones coming along they just need to finish up. I only hatched 65 this year but have a lot of excellent birds. My plan is to keep two cockerels and six pullets and sell the rest. Might be putting some on here in the auction site before too long. I already have six blues and four blacks out this year with another 15 blue (blackXsplash) eggs in the incubator. My goal is to hatch about 250 blacks, 100 or so blues and 50 BBred X Brown Red.

 

[silkielover5]

i have a Black rooster and a splash hen. what would i get if i bred those togther im hoping for more splash

 

[OSUman]

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You would get all blues. But when you breed them together then you will get splash

 

[silkielover5]

does anyone have a bbred hen for sale?
or breeds bbreds

 

[sjarvis00]

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Are you having issues with hackle and saddle color in the BB or what is your intent with that cross? The few BB Red rosecomb I have seen had considerable hackle fade like you expect in a wheaton. Although it could be resolved through selection against that trait in the breeders and reduced overtime I would expect the Brown red to fix that issue fairly quickly but getting the female pattern back would likely be more difficult.

I am hoping to locate a breeder trio of Wheaton or Blue wheaton in Shawnee in a few weeks and possibly a few splash hens. We will see whats there though.

 

[cns2782]

I only had two BBred pullets so I got the brown red (Black X BBred) to breed to get more BBred's to breed from. Then I can actually work on improving something when I have a selection to cull from. My line is supposedly a male line only and the females will always have too much shafting and color issues to really show. I have one pullet that is way too light and one that is way too dark but both have excellent type.

 

[sjarvis00]

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that would be an issue not enough to cull through. I had read that several had actually used Brown Red OE in thier brown reds which would not work well for your purposes however if you know the lineage of teh birds you are working from that would be helpfull. You can resolve the shafting and other issues given time, there are some real selection tricks to help with the BB pattern.

My goals are actually quite simple, if I use splash it will take an extra generation but would allow for Silver Blue and Birchen to be re-introduced. I have a nice male line OE Birchen male that is built more like a rosecomb in body, feather width, and leg length so it is not a stretch. I think I can handle 4-5 varieties of Rosecomb to complement my OE and be shown in different classes which would be nice.