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Maybelline_Goode said:
Ok so I was really wanting some bantams, especially cochin bantams, so I went onto facebook marketplace (which I don't think youre even allowed to sell animals on lol) and I found someone with all kinds of bantams, so I bought 12 weeks old bantams, 2 silkies, 2 mottled cochins, and 2 calico cochins, and I had no plan so they are ling in one of those shaky tsc coops while me and my dad build a proper one
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Oh ok... idk if it is lol
 
Holly Hobbie said:
How would you go about getting a jubilee orpington color?
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Jubilee is such a pain. Mille fleur is almost the same but has a dilute gene.
I worked on them with Leghorns. MF is buff columbian with mottling. Jubilee is red columbian with mottling.
It's so hard to bring mottling in from like a black mottled bird because they have so many different genes.
When crossing to make things the more genes that are different in the two you cross the more difficult it becomes.
When I started with my Leghorns I got as many different ones as I could. Then learned what genes each had. Then I looked at which were the closest and which genes were different.
What I could do.
I have a gift for seeing possibilities I'd say. I just started with a plan but once you make something new it's like I see how to spiderweb it into different directions.
Duckwing is a basic pattern but you can have gold DW or silver DW. Then you can add like barring or mottling or both. You can add dilute genes like blue or chocolate.
You can then add thise together so you can have like blue barred silver duckwing or chocolate mottled gold duckwing.
Or you can add lavender.
There's just so so so many genes and so many combinations that it's overwhelming.
 
Holly Hobbie said:
Have any pics?
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The Moonshiner said:
Jubilee is such a pain. Mille fleur is almost the same but has a dilute gene.
I worked on them with Leghorns. MF is buff columbian with mottling. Jubilee is red columbian with mottling.
It's so hard to bring mottling in from like a black mottled bird because they have so many different genes.
When crossing to make things the more genes that are different in the two you cross the more difficult it becomes.
When I started with my Leghorns I got as many different ones as I could. Then learned what genes each had. Then I looked at which were the closest and which genes were different.
What I could do.
I have a gift for seeing possibilities I'd say. I just started with a plan but once you make something new it's like I see how to spiderweb it into different directions.
Duckwing is a basic pattern but you can have gold DW or silver DW. Then you can add like barring or mottling or both. You can add dilute genes like blue or chocolate.
You can then add thise together so you can have like blue barred silver duckwing or chocolate mottled gold duckwing.
Or you can add lavender.
There's just so so so many genes and so many combinations that it's overwhelming.
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Bookmarking for future reference! thanks I appreciate it!
So it's a guessing game and you have to see what works and what doesnt?
 
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