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Short answer would be about 50% black with leakage and about 50% blue with leakage.Can I ask a quick genetics question? It's nothing to do with Leghorns, sorry, but I just wanted to ask real quick.
I'd like to breed two of my birds: Zapraska, the rooster, and Poppy, the hen:
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Poppy is a Sapphire Gem (I think so, at least), and Zapraska is a Brown OEGB.
Does anyone have any idea what their offspring would look like, out of curiosity?What color the chicks would be? I guess that I'll know if they both survive 'til spring and I have time to breed them, but just out of curiosity....
Sorry to cut in like that.
Pullets will end up with no leakage to leakage in the hackles. (Like a copper Marans hen but not as dark of red.)
Males usually always have leakage at least in the shoulder area but can end up with as much colored areas as your rooster. Id expect less then your rooster but in all the same places.
Your sapphire may be silver based (but doubt it) and his leakage would be yellowish instead of reddish.
It will be a bit of a cr@pshoot.