Speckled sussex roo with blue orpington

[Hopeful homesteader]

Has anyone tried cross breeding a speckled sussex roo with a blue orpington hen? If so how do they look? I'm not planning to breed any, at least not for a year or 2 but I was curious how this mix would turn out.

 

[1muttsfan]

You can try plugging the colors into the Chicken Calculator - http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kippengenen

They also have a site for Genetics for Non-Professionals that is very instructive - http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page0.html

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Has anyone tried cross breeding a speckled sussex roo with a blue orpington hen? If so how do they look? I'm not planning to breed any, at least not for a year or 2 but I was curious how this mix would turn out.

The first crosses will be black with red leakage (like a black sex link hen) and blue with red leakage. If you keeping crossing the offspring together or back to the parents, you could eventually get some blue mottleds and “blue speckleds” which would have the coloring of speckled sussexes but with blue replacing the black.