Should I keep working on this feather pattern?

[dc3085]

I've been generating a few of these and I'm not entirely sure if it's worth my time and cage space to continue to generate/improve on this color variation. You guys tell me what you think. I'll add some pics of his sides later as they also have an extended amount of the reddish feathering.



I know what I always say about culling any brown bird not easily distinguished as a hen or roo, however these birds are very easy to sex since all my brown roos are dark faced and all my brown hens are masked. Further the red spotting on the chest doesn't really develop or spread out until 5-6 weeks. Before that it just looks like a roo with a little mud on it's chest.

 

[Lozuufy]

I really like that coloring, I actually have a male with similar coloring and was wondering if it will pass on to his offspring or not?

 

[dc3085]

Depends on a lot of generic factors that we often cant be sure of but in this case, without line breeding, it seems to be working. You always have a better chance of a male passing on specific traits than a female, for some reason, so its very possible.

 

[Lozuufy]

Cool, so hopefully I get some cool looking sons from him, although I'm focusing on breeding cinnamon range cots, but the only ones I have are females so their babies look like their father (not a cinnamon). Luckily I have 50 more shipped eggs in the bator so hoping there will be a couple cinnamon boys that hatch. I also might get some other cool colors in that batch so it will be hard choosing what to keep breeding. I have started looking into bird color genetics - mostly pigeons, but some quail - and their are so many cool things! If I could have every color quail I would, but I guess I'll have to just try to be content with cinnamons (and all the other colors I have, but they don't count because their more common colors). I also read that male birds (maybe just with pigeons) pass on one color gene to both their sons and daughters while females only pass on a color gene to their sons, seems pretty cool.

 

[cmobley]

Hey dc I keep getting some white birds but all i have are pharaoh color and one rosetta. Are the whites coming from the rosetta? What color would i get from my pharaoh male and white female. Have you ever bred those colors?

 

[dc3085]

A&Ms are basically just jumbo brown birds with two copies of the recessive white gene. Your rooster and one or more hens each have one copy of the recessive white.

 

[dc3085]

Well since he got all positive votes I won't eat him. He's on a mixed bunch of hens though so I will be eating those once I get him integrated into a new group of all pharaoh hens. In a few months we can see how well the second generation of these things will look.