Share-your-breeding-projects thread

[Chikyboy]

This year I'm planning on breeding and selecting for barred Plymouth rocks, standard bred Rhode island reds,I'm also adding the naked neck gene I already have In a very good looking rooster to some Rhode island red hens and the naked neck gene I already have on a beautiful hen to a barred rock rooster as a side project...also when all are adults planning to produce black sex links crossing the rir Rooster and the bpr hens.

Cool!

 

[Angel07]

I’ll be hopefully getting some australorps this year. After getting a few generations I’m hoping to get some auracunas to breed them together so I can breed an australorp line who lay coloured eggs.

Feel free to give me some advice if you have it.

 

[cherrynberry]

My own lines of wyandottes including tolbunt and chocolate laced and lavender
I do also have olive eggers i want to add eggs to my collection so i will be breeding a f1x maran and then to another f1 and then the f1 hen bred to my ameraucana

I would LOVE to see your Tolbunt Wyandottes.

 

[NatJ]

I’ll be hopefully getting some australorps this year. After getting a few generations I’m hoping to get some auracunas to breed them together so I can breed an australorp line who lay coloured eggs.

Feel free to give me some advice if you have it.

If you want them to look like Australorps (with single combs), start with a colored egg layer that has a single comb (example: Cream Legbar.)

There is a link between the gene for blue/not-blue eggs and the gene for pea/not-pea comb. They are quite close together on the same chromosome, and tend to be inherited together.

So if you cross an Araucana to an Australorp, you will find that their descendants almost all fall into two groups: pea comb birds that lay green eggs, and single comb birds that lay brown eggs.

But if you start with a single comb bird that lays blue or green eggs, then you can use it to breed more single comb birds that lay green eggs.

Since Australorps lay brown eggs, you will probably end up with a bird that lays green eggs and not blue eggs.

 

[Angel07]

If you want them to look like Australorps (with single combs), start with a colored egg layer that has a single comb (example: Cream Legbar.)

There is a link between the gene for blue/not-blue eggs and the gene for pea/not-pea comb. They are quite close together on the same chromosome, and tend to be inherited together.

So if you cross an Araucana to an Australorp, you will find that their descendants almost all fall into two groups: pea comb birds that lay green eggs, and single comb birds that lay brown eggs.

But if you start with a single comb bird that lays blue or green eggs, then you can use it to breed more single comb birds that lay green eggs.

Since Australorps lay brown eggs, you will probably end up with a bird that lays green eggs and not blue eggs.

Thank you for the tips. This’ll be my first breeding project. I’m still ironing out the details so it’s great to hear some ideas from someone who actually knows what they are doing.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I would LOVE to see your Tolbunt Wyandottes.

This is how last year started

This is how it ended

He was pretty so hoping breeding him to a split mottled hen will give me mottled/laced unless the hen isnt split then id be in a stump

 

[cherrynberry]

This is how last year started View attachment 2957542
This is how it ended View attachment 2957543
He was pretty so hoping breeding him to a split mottled hen will give me mottled/laced unless the hen isnt split then id be in a stump

I love the pattern. Good luck and please keep me posted!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I love the pattern. Good luck and please keep me posted!

I loved it to so was shocked when he molted it all out lol the mottled gene is not as easy as people say

 

[cherrynberry]

I loved it to so was shocked when he molted it all out lol the mottled gene is not as easy as people say

Most people say they get more after a molt, but it seems to be caused by annual molts, not juvenile ones. I really want to see Tolbunt on more breeds. Not just Polish.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Most people say they get more after a molt, but it seems to be caused by annual molts, not juvenile ones. I really want to see Tolbunt on more breeds. Not just Polish.

I was hoping he would remolt them in but i really dont think he will but at least i know hes split mottled lol hoping the hen is split and not that 25% non split and i love tolbunts but barely any breeds but polish have it its a challenge thats for sure i actually was just going for a mottled wyandotte look but he popped out and now i need one that looks like that all the time