Trying to find best colour match for my Orpingtons

- 6 buff hens to 1 buff rooster.
1 red hen to 1 cuckoo red rooster
1 cuckoo lemon pullet to 1 cuckoo lemon cockerel
1 buff cuckoo carrying pullet to 1 buff or buff cuckoo carrying cockerel
1 black hen to one buff rooster
1 splash hen to one buff rooster
no idea what to do with the lavender.
I would keep the red sex links out of it. I think they will just give you a mish mash of color.
If you had a black rooster, you could breed the red sex links and the lavender to it.
Best,
Karen

 

Three rivers did a good job matching up the birds. Two suggestions that I would add.

the red sex links would work with the buff or cuckoo red, cuckoo lemon, buff cuckoo- this is a good combination especially if the red sex links have white tails and white in wings

producing lavenders

cuckoo red x lavender = F1 basic barred blacks that carry the LAV gene ( males will carry one barring gene) hatch 5-10 offspring

Select a good looking F1 male and back cross to lavender parent = BC1 offspring some will be lavender or lavender barred (should be interesting) other BC1 will be black or black barred hatch 20 or more offspring

Cross a male BC1 lavender offspring to a female BC1 lavender offspring to produce all lavenders / to produce more barred lavs just breed barred lav to barred lav- the lighter colored male offspring will carry one barring gene ( they should look like the father).



you can introduce genetic diversity by crossing lavender to a black ( not from lav line) then back crossing to a lav