The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[nicalandia]

How would I breed Sapphire Gems? I have a Barred Rock hen.

There is no Recipe to breed those. But if you would like to have highly productive Blue eggers you can get Super Blue Eggers sold by Hatcheries or make your own by breeding Pearl White Leghorn and Cream Legbars.

 

[nicalandia]

@nicalandia, your opinions on the beaks of my best two, Malay chicks for my PBA, USA project?

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They all seem to have the same length and shape

 

[Fallenone05]

There is no Recipe to breed those. But if you would like to have highly productive Blue eggers you can get Super Blue Eggers sold by Hatcheries or make your own by breeding Pearl White Leghorn and Cream Legbars.

Sapphire Gems are a barred bird and a solid blue bird. They're a brown egg laying hybrid that is sexable at hatch

 

[nicalandia]

Humm not sure where to ask this but I guess here will do? Trying to narrow down my colors on the breeds I want to keep and I was wondering if these colors can be kept together.

For Spitzhauben: Chamois Spangled and Gold Spangled.

For Phoenix: Golden and Silver Duckwing.

For Ameraucana: Black and Lavender.

Would that work given the lavender needs black for strengthening feathers, Golden Duckwing being S/s+ , and Chamois needing Gold Spangled to keep its colors less diluted? Kinda how BBS works in that you can keep them together breeding wise?

@NatJ

 

[nicalandia]

Sapphire Gems are a barred bird and a solid blue bird. They're a brown egg laying hybrid that is sexable at hatch

Thanks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

They all seem to have the same length and shape

I see a difference between them. I'll just update in another week, or two. Might be more noticeable then.

 

[NatJ]

Humm not sure where to ask this but I guess here will do? Trying to narrow down my colors on the breeds I want to keep and I was wondering if these colors can be kept together.

For Spitzhauben: Chamois Spangled and Gold Spangled.

For Phoenix: Golden and Silver Duckwing.

For Ameraucana: Black and Lavender.

Yes, keeping those pairs of colors should work fine.

Would that work given the lavender needs black for strengthening feathers, Golden Duckwing being S/s+ , and Chamois needing Gold Spangled to keep its colors less diluted?

I'm not familiar with the Lavender and Chamois issues you mention, but that does sound like a good reason to keep them grouped as you suggested.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I was sold this rooster and this hen as genetic hackle, the hen came from a mom that looked just like her which was in a pen with very light, Almost White male roosters with thin black barring. The rooster is admitted Maybe 25 to 75% genetic hackle. What would their chicks look like certain color and feathering. The last photo is The Offspring of the rooster and a Miller fluer duccle hen.

I would expect most sons to look a lot like the father, and most daughters to look a lot like the mother.

(I am assuming they are genetically gold birchen, with white barring, and I am not considering recessive gene possibilities. If my assumptions are wrong, then of course my prediction will also be wrong.)


Hmm. The father may only have one copy of the barring gene, instead of the two I expected. In that case, you might get some daughters without barring (like if the white stripes were removed from the mother.) All sons should have barring anyway, and some of the daughters will too.

Based on how the offspring looks (both appear to be dun), the father is probably single barred dun gold duckwing (which I guess you could call incomplete barred dun crele).

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

How would I breed Sapphire Gems? I have a Barred Rock hen.

Barred hen, splash rooster with no barring.
That will give blue sons with white barring and blue daughters with no white barring. The barring is visible as a light spot on the head at hatch.

Splash might come from Blue Andalusian, or Blue Australorp, or any other "blue" breed.
A patterned rooster can also work, as long as he has splash, and has no barring (for example, a Splash Laced Red Wyandotte would work fine.)

In all of those cases, the chicks will be blue and will be sexlinks (sexable by color at hatch), but they will not really be "Sapphire Gems." That name goes with one specific cross, from parent types that are not usually available to buy.

You could also use a blue rooster, making half the chicks blue sex links (aka sapphire gems) and half black sex links.

 

[bzhens]

There is no Recipe to breed those. But if you would like to have highly productive Blue eggers you can get Super Blue Eggers sold by Hatcheries or make your own by breeding Pearl White Leghorn and Cream Legbars.

So when you say Pearl White Leghorn, do you just mean a White Leghorn because I do have some White Leghorns now I’m raising. I also have a Cream Legbar rooster.