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To make Silver double-laced Barnevelders, I was told that you should use a silver penciled rock or silver penciled wyandotte and cross it with a very good strain of Barnevelders. The Silver Laced wyandottes carry the columbian gene (messes up the lacing) and that will be hard to breed out with working with the silvers. With blue-laced you can keep crossing back with pure barnevelders to get better type, lacing, egg color and get rid of wrong genes like columbian. Eventually you could even keep the whole flock together as Black, Blue, Splash once the "blues" are up to breed standard. With the Silvers it's harder to get back to the right type, lacing, breed standard, etc because you can't back cross to a "gold" true Barnevelder with out adding gold and red leakage back in. You have to keep breeding the first "hybrid" offspring back together. It's also harder to introduce new blood and it would be a good idea to start with several pens of breeders. If I've gotten any of this wrong, hopefully a genetics expert will jump in and correct me
Trisha
To make Silver double-laced Barnevelders, I was told that you should use a silver penciled rock or silver penciled wyandotte and cross it with a very good strain of Barnevelders. The Silver Laced wyandottes carry the columbian gene (messes up the lacing) and that will be hard to breed out with working with the silvers. With blue-laced you can keep crossing back with pure barnevelders to get better type, lacing, egg color and get rid of wrong genes like columbian. Eventually you could even keep the whole flock together as Black, Blue, Splash once the "blues" are up to breed standard. With the Silvers it's harder to get back to the right type, lacing, breed standard, etc because you can't back cross to a "gold" true Barnevelder with out adding gold and red leakage back in. You have to keep breeding the first "hybrid" offspring back together. It's also harder to introduce new blood and it would be a good idea to start with several pens of breeders. If I've gotten any of this wrong, hopefully a genetics expert will jump in and correct me
Trisha