Trying to understand wheaten-blue Marans Genetics.

[Pyxis]

Thats how the blue australorp coloring works too. I have 2 blue girls 3 blue splash an 3 blue/gray. These came from a hatchery so they are not show stock by no means. They have missing waddle an short and long waddle on the same bird.

I think the terminology you are using is causing confusion - a bird can't be 'blue splash', it can be blue OR splash. Also, blue/gray is confusing, there is no color called blue/gray.

Blue breeding works like I said in that post - no copies of the blue gene, the name of the color would be black, and it would be a black bird. One copy, the bird is blue. Two copies, the bird is splash. Saying 'blue splash' is calling the bird two colors at once, which obviously it can't be.

In this image, you can see all three colors on Ameracaunas. The front-most hen is splash, that lighter color with occasional spots of darker color. The middle bird is blue. And the rooster in the back is black. If you compare your birds to these birds, you should be able to tell what colors you actually have.

 

[Sheryll_woods]

Thank you for the color info

 

[bigsurfwaves]

What is a "Blue Rooster"? A Blue, Blue Copper, Blue Birchin, Blue Cuckoo, Blue Wheaten Marans, etc?

I want to know this also. I have some nice wheaten (Marans) hens with good egg color and a trio of Blue Birchens with good color also. I only have a blue Birchen rooster to breed with them. Can this cross work for blue wheatens? What is my goal in generation 1 and 2 - with the goal of starting blue wheatens? Thank you in advance.

 

[NatJ]

I want to know this also. I have some nice wheaten (Marans) hens with good egg color and a trio of Blue Birchens with good color also. I only have a blue Birchen rooster to breed with them. Can this cross work for blue wheatens? What is my goal in generation 1 and 2 - with the goal of starting blue wheatens? Thank you in advance.

I see it has been many months, but there are no responses to this question, so I'll add one now. Better late than never, hopefully.

If you breed a Blue Birchen rooster to a Wheaten Marans hen, you will not get any Wheaten or Blue Wheaten chicks. You will get chicks that look like some sort of a mix. Pick a male that shows blue, and breed him back to a Wheaten Marans hen. Hatch a lot of chicks. You will probably get some Wheaten and some Blue Wheaten chicks in this generation, along with a bunch of other colors. (They may not be very good Wheaten and Blue Wheaten coloring, but should at least be close enough to recognize what color they are.) Pick a Blue Wheaten male, and cross back to a Wheaten hen again. You should get mostly or entirely Wheaten and Blue Wheaten chicks in that generation, and can start picking for which ones are the best.

Any time you breed Blue Wheaten to Wheaten, you should get chicks of both colors, in about equal numbers. If you breed Blue Wheaten to Blue Wheaten, you should get about half Blue Wheaten chicks, about 1/4 normal Wheaten, and about 1/4 Splash Wheaten.