What color should Delaware x New hampshires pullets be

[catdaddyfro]

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Yeah, really, right.

BTW my brother (aka. biomistake on the BYC) lives kinda sorta up around your neck of the woods he's in Russellville and he's a poultry aficionado also, too. He's coming down home here this fall to replenish his chicken addiction outta my multitudes of birds that I over hatched

this past spring.

Good chatting with you cousin

till later on, bye

Jeff

You just ain't gonna believe this......I just moved up here FROM Russellville!

It is a small world after all- Mickey Mouse is so right, huh?

Hey there Mrs. Kathy I see your hot on the trail for information on those mysterious & eluding ?'s on Delaware genetics, go gettem'.

I guess you's gettin' a hoot and a holler out of my goofy adventures in life huh? I got lots of them, have a lot that are not censored for family type chat forums though,

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And will leave them be. Fo sho!

I am interested too in the story behind that Del patterned pullet too from Tim, might it be one his R.I.Silver experimental gals, maybe?

Jeff

 

[kathyinmo]

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Hi ya Jeff!

hahaha, that is just what I was wondering, too!

 

[tadkerson]

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Tim,
Was this Delaware pullet made from other breeds, or did she come from Delaware parents?

She is a product from my Barred Rhode Island red project. I knew I would also produce some Delaware like birds and some silver wheatens while producing the rhodebar. I did a couple more years of crossing and produced her and some more like her. I sold all the birds and I am no longer working on the barred rhode island red or the silver wheaten project. I still have two of my barred rhode island red hens.

The silver wheaten females had a ton of red in them- I was working on the genetics of autosomal red- she and her sisters were the first birds I produced that did not have autosomal red.

This is one of the silver wheatens that expressed the autosomal red .

This is a Delaware like male I had produced. He expressed a bunch of smut in his feathers- but with a few more years of crossing that could be removed in his descendants..

I am still working on the autosomal red- but I am using Missouri Topknots instead of the silver wheaten birds I produced.



To answer your question she has Rhode island red and barred rock as her ancestors.

I believe great great great great grandma was a rhode island red and great great great great grandpa was a barred rock.

Tim

 

[kathyinmo]

Thank you, Tim! I was wondering about this!