The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[banjoejoe4783]

Question: if you breed a splash to any other color will you always get blue, so long as the other color didn't carry a blue gene too?
So splash to black gives you blue 100% of the time. If I bred a white to splash would I get blue? Just wondering about how the blue gene works.
I was reading this: "
The splash colouring in my opinion is truly fascinating and a very useful tool to producing not only Blue and Splash Orpingtons but when used in combination with other colours can extend the possible range of Blue ground colour birds you can breed. A Splash bird is actually a Blue bird in pure form so any offspring that has a Splash parent will carry one blue gene so will be blue in appearance." - from Keith's Orps site.
http://www.keiths-orps.co.uk/categories/large-fowl/splash.html
Beautiful birds and colors on his site.

you also have to remember that some colors are masking what may lay undernith for example

i was woring with frizel cochins and using a white roo over splash hen 75% of the chicks hatch blue but i also hatch blue bared chick so even thought the roo was white he was caring the bared geen undernith the white

so yes you can use splash over other colors to make blue but they may not be soild blue for exampel

splash over gold laced would get you blue gold laced chicks with incomplet lacing and some feathers would be soild blue

splash over bared would produce blue and blue bared depending on how many coppys of the bared geen the bared was carrying

the posabillatys are endless if you take the time to do things right
splash over parteradge
splash over buff
splash over choclate "platnam?"

 

[GoPokes]

Speaking of breeding Splash with other colors to get interesting combos. I bred some Splash hens with a chocolate cockerel and got the pullets below. I'm not too fond of the color but interesting none the less.

 

[rockinpaints]

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Hey! I think they are Awesome!!

 

[naturespace]

Speaking of breeding Splash with other colors to get interesting combos. I bred some Splash hens with a chocolate cockerel and got the pullets below. I'm not too fond of the color but interesting none the less.

I kind of like the color. What if you breed these pullets to a splash? might be interesting. Was the chocolate a LF? i'm wondering if you were trying to get a large choc and that's why you bred them. Just curious what your project goals were.

I can't wait to start my own project colors. Thanks for all the info. it is fascinating.

 

[GoPokes]

It was a bantam chocolate to a large Splash. I wasn't even sure the little guy could breed the large girl but he managed somehow. My goal was something I saw on this thread back several hundred posts. A guy named Richard from the UK posted this picture and I thought it was pretty cool.

 

[naturespace]

It was a bantam chocolate to a large Splash. I wasn't even sure the little guy could breed the large girl but he managed somehow. My goal was something I saw on this thread back several hundred posts. A guy named Richard from the UK posted this picture and I thought it was pretty cool.

Pretty. I wonder if you bred your mixed girls to a blue you might get some like this?

 

[BamaChicken]

Here is a blue pullet that is 4 months old that I hatched late Feb. She made the cut of the 7 from that hatch. A little darker than I like but I will breed her to splash. I can tell she i

s going to be a great big girl with good type

 

[BamaChicken]

Here is one of the blue boys from the same hatch. The color of his feathers is really a nice color and

better than the pullet. They all carry really good lacing genes.

 

[jeremy]

She is beautiful Julie. Her lacing is fantastic.

 

[BamaChicken]

Thanks Jeremy. Here is that mottled throw back chick