What happens if I put a Chocolate Orpingyon Roo over Red cuckoo Orpington hen?

[nicalandia]

any pictures of your Red Cuckoo? how deep red are they?

 

[moving coops]

No the pure Red Cuckoo hen, but the result of the cross with the chocolate rooster.

I guess I could still keep her with the chocolate Roo. Not sure worth it though what they will look like with cream belly. So just though she might as well just go into the mixed pen! I could keep her and get those chicks but then I have to keep them and raise separate just to put in next years pen! And I am trying to hatch all my chicks that I keep forms self in one time frame! As our season is so short. So I don't want to be hatching chicks every week for our own stock. Did that last year and hard to maintain. So hatching all our stock then selling! And people might not want choc chick oth cream belly!

 

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Chocolate roo over lavender hen will produce 100% chocolate pullets that will look like pure(no signs of lavender), 100% black roosters that carry both lavender and chocolate in hidden form, this chocolate pullets will not sho any feather splitting.

So are you saying my chocolate pullets from this color cross will breed 100 chocolate chicks when bred back too chocolate Roo?

 

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Chocolate roo over lavender hen will produce 100% chocolate pullets that will look like pure(no signs of lavender), 100% black roosters that carry both lavender and chocolate in hidden form, this chocolate pullets will not sho any feather splitting.

Would you use the black Roos over anything or that will be a mess so just full them?

 

[moving coops]

Not super deep red!

 

[nicalandia]

So are you saying my chocolate pullets from this color cross will breed 100 chocolate chicks when bred back too chocolate Roo?

Yes.. 100%

 

[moving coops]

Awesome so no wrries of pullets showing up the lavender gene when back in the program... Which means they all can be one pen and don't have to worry telling people lavender gene. Just the boys are the problem, I would have to say they have hidden genes! Don't think anyone will want them anyways. So the cockerels would not be good for breeding of any color Orpington after this cross then???

 

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Thanks again now I wish this would have been true with my BLRW Roo over white Wyandottes that are going to produce solid blue or black chicks(with no lacing)(maybe some red leakage in males). I wish those chicks could either be bred together to get more solid blue or black chicks! Or bred back to a BLRW again to get lacing back and be BLRW again but now such luck with these guys like the Orpingtons.

They will be just eye candy that lay and produce meat!

Funny how genetics for for you in one instance but not in the other!


So excited that my choc orp Roo with Lavendar or Lavendar cuckoo hens will produce 100% choc pullets that then can be crossed back to choc Roo again and still be 100% choc chick (pullets and cockerels). One breeding that will be in my favor since I can easily put a pen together like that instead of having yet another pen of colors! Yippee!