The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[Pampered chicken girl]

If I breed a sapphire gem and a paint silkie what color chicks would I get?

 

[NatJ]

If I breed a sapphire gem and a paint silkie what color chicks would I get?

Blue chicks, black chicks, blue paint chicks, black paint chicks.
Probably with each color in approximately equal numbers, and each color can come in either gender.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Blue chicks, black chicks, blue paint chicks, black paint chicks.
Probably with each color in approximately equal numbers, and each color can come in either gender.

Thanks

 

[NatJ]

But, the bantam breeding would probably downsize the offspring. So, to avoid the recessive bantam Dwarfism gene I would have to breed back to the Malays to avoid that. A complication I wanted to avoid, but may have to risk, or make a blue mottled bantam Malay.

If you buy a mottled chicken that is not a bantam, you can avoid that. I think Anconas and Speckled Sussex are fairly easy to get from many hatcheries.

If you start with a mottled chicken (either gender) and some Malays, the options for how to breed are the same, no matter what mottled chicken you start with. I just used your bantam as an example, because she's what you have right now.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

What about buff to paint?

 

[MysteryChicken]

If you buy a mottled chicken that is not a bantam, you can avoid that. I think Anconas and Speckled Sussex are fairly easy to get from many hatcheries.

If you start with a mottled chicken (either gender) and some Malays, the options for how to breed are the same, no matter what mottled chicken you start with. I just used your bantam as an example, because she's what you have right now.

I'll check, & see what I may add to my spring chick order for next year. Would have to be a brown layer, so I'll avoid white layers.

 

[NatJ]

What about buff to paint?

Half of chicks black
Half of chicks paint (white with black)

Both could have some amount of leakage in buff, red, or silver (of course, silver leakage won't be obvious on a paint.)

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

If you breed porcelain d'uccles to a blue mottled Satin what colors would you get?
Would you lose the porcelain completely?
Pics are of blue mottled as chick and now.

 

[NatJ]

If you breed porcelain d'uccles to a blue mottled Satin what colors would you get?
Would you lose the porcelain completely?
Pics are of blue mottled as chick and now.

First generation, probably blue mottled and black mottled, both carrying the lavender gene.
There may be some amount of leakage in gold, red, or white.

If you breed those chicks to each other or back to the porcelain, you will probably get a bunch of different colors.

They should all show mottling.
There will be lots of black and blue, and maybe some splash.
Some will have the lavender gene.
Some will have a base color of black, others will have a base color of black-and-red (like what Mille Fleur and Porcelain have.)
If the Blue Mottled chicken has the Silver gene, some will have a base color of black-and-silver (like Silver Mille Fleur.)

So you might get any of these colors:
black mottled
blue mottled
splash mottled
lavender mottled
Mille Fleur
Blue Mille Fleur
Splash Mille Fleur
Porcelain
Silver Mille Fleur
Blue Silver Mille Fleur
Splash Silver Mille Fleur
Silver Porcelain

And maybe a few that don't quite fit any of those names.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

What if I breed a mille fluer d'uccle to a porcelain d'uccle? What color chicks?