Small-combed Bielefelder Project

[nicalandia]

Look a them

 

[LittleDinosaur]

Why not start with a walnut breed instead, I think there was a someone breeding crele chanteclers

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one breed for walnut rather than pea? Is it a mix of recessive straight and dominant pea genetics? I don't mind the exact type of comb as long as it is small, but I would prefer to make it the standard so I don't have to worry about any straight combs cropping up in future generations.

 

[LittleDinosaur]

Look a them


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Wow, they look almost exactly like a small-combed Bielefelder! Just much darker.

 

[nicalandia]

The waltnut comb is the combination of two com mutations both dominant over single comb, the pea comb and the rose comb, but some breeds like chantecler and silkies already have them in their standards

 

[nicalandia]

Wow, they look almost exactly like a small-combed Bielefelder! Just much darker.

The rooster on the pics is darker because it has only one copy of the barring gene, so its heterozygous, roosters with two copies are much lighter

 

[LittleDinosaur]

The waltnut comb is the combination of two com mutations both dominant over single comb, the pea comb and the rose comb, but some breeds like chantecler and silkies already have them in their standards

Do the crele chanteclers auto-sex? I want to retain that ability because it is so useful as a small-scale farmer. I'm considering a pea-combed variety because that is the only barred hen I have to mix with my Bieles in an attempt to retain the auto-sexing. If that makes sense?

 

[nicalandia]

Do the crele chanteclers auto-sex?

They should but I think that they are no longer being bred for. You could try ti ger some partridge chantecler hens an cros them with your rooster

 

[LittleDinosaur]

They should but I think that they are no longer being bred for. You could try ti ger some partridge chantecler hens an cros them with your rooster

Do Partridge Chantecler hens have a barring gene? If not, would I do Biele roo x Partridge Chantecler hen (F1) and then breed back any resulting barred hens to a Biele roo to re-establish the auto-sexing?

 

[LittleDinosaur]

This is the barred EE hen who I'm going to cross with this purebred Bielefelder rooster.
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And this is another barred EE rooster who I'm going to cross with a purebred Bielefelder hen.
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[gunslinger33]

I like the roo , very dark compared to mine.

I have 5 Biel hens some have a very short comb