Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[X2Farm]

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Oh, wow, hey, I'm a dufus

Thats what I get for not paying attention!!!! Hey, I'm still learning

Thanks for pointing that out

Kathy, thank you! At least I got something right

 

[X2Farm]

Oh and whats got me frusterated, is I can see the body I need for the Dels.. in other breeds I have

I just hope next years breeding goes well

and the body type shines through how I'm hoping

What am I saying... mine are still chicks

I can't wait to see how they grow out

 

[jeremy]

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& so the plot thickens... what was the BR mixed with then?
If that's the case, would these still be considered Delawares then? Or a project that has a similar feather pattern to that of Dels...

Also, what would happen if you bred the resulting birds to a "real" Delaware, would it produce Del patterned chicks?\\

You also mentioned there were no roosters... so are these birds sex linked? Are there roosters, just not of the Del color pattern?

 

[kathyinmo]

OK, here is the story ....
Per the experts, this is the "recipe," to create a Delaware:

 

[jeremy]

So selecting and breeding the Delaware colored males and the Silver Columbian females (which will always be females?) will result in Delawares like those in the picture?

The real question is though HOW many eggs do you have to hatch to get what you need?

 

[kathyinmo]

Only 12 eggs were hatched in this mating. 6 were barred...
breeders words:

Five of the chicks were pure white at hatch. There were 3 males and 2 females. All were decent Delaware color pattern. At least for the first generation offspring of two so very different colored breeds. The males had too much black on their backs, but the females are pretty decent "Delawares".​

 

[kathyinmo]

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YES! How many ....... ALOT!!!

 

[jeremy]

I'm confused. Only 12 eggs were hatched from the BR X NH mating and resulted in these birds,

OR

12 eggs were hatched from the all barred birds resulting in these Delaware patterned offspring? (Isn't this suppose to be correct?)

 

[jeremy]

Kathy, you have one of those giant cabinet incubators... get to hatching!!!

ETA: Where are those two "Delaware" pullets now? Is someone still continuing this project, do they have any more results?

They're probably in Europe... that's the way these things work, you get to drooling over some AMAZING bird, only then to realize they're located in the UK.

 

[kathyinmo]

The birds in the pictures are not from the recipe .....
They came from the first generation cross of a BR x NH (BECAUSE the BR roo was not pure).