What happens when you breed the two?

[Celeste Cannon]

I was just wondering what would happen if I bred two of the same breed with different colors/patterns. Lets say if I bred a silver laced polish rooster with a gold laced hen. They're both polish and I'm curious if they would mix or just come out with one or the other. I wouldn't be able to test this out myself, but send any pictures if you have mixed breed chickens!

 

[Sagey_7878]

@Sneebsey Do you think you could help out?

 

[Gray Farms]

You'll get mixed answers on this one. I'm a firm believer that if you mix two varieties of the same breed its still the same breed. As in your example, Silver Laced Polish x Gold Laced Polish the offspring would still be Polish but not necessarily a recognized pattern and won't likely breed true to color. Or a Partridge Wyandotte x Buff Columbian Wyandotte the offspring would still be a Wyandotte and so on. Other believe they aren't purebreds any more.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

if you breed gold over silver you would get a sexlink all hens would be gold males would be silver its still a polish just not a show quality one

 

[allosaurusrock]

They would mix, not come out with a clear color

 

[Celeste Cannon]

if you breed gold over silver you would get a sexlink all hens would be gold males would be silver its still a polish just not a show quality one

Wow really?? That is so cool! I'd really want to try that out

 

[Egghead_Jr]

You get lemon yellow cockerels and pullets will be the color of sire. Reason for lemon/yellow is males carry two base color genes and hens only carry one. The hens one with opposite base color of male results in blend of two colors in cockerels. The pullets receive one copy from sire. They are his color, silver or gold respectively.

If you take the resulting cockerels and mate to dam the offspring are 50/50 silver or gold for pullets and 50/50 mixed or color of dam in cockerels.

I've got a photo somewhere of what that mix of silver and gold looks like on a K...

Left of photo is silver/gold grown cockerel. He's pencilled but gives you idea of that combination silver and gold expression.

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is the result of mixing Barred silver based genes, with Buff gold based genes, & Extended black genes. He's Buff Orpington/Barred Rock X Australorp. He went into the pot.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

I should add that often what happens when crossing blood lines, even with same variety, you'll get some unexpected expressions. Biggest one I've personally had is side sprigs on combs. Not sure how that would look on Polish V comb but something to look out for.

Many lines of birds don't niche together well. You've just got to push on, hatch many, to find the few that can be used moving forward.

 

[NatJ]

I was just wondering what would happen if I bred two of the same breed with different colors/patterns. Lets say if I bred a silver laced polish rooster with a gold laced hen. They're both polish and I'm curious if they would mix or just come out with one or the other. I wouldn't be able to test this out myself, but send any pictures if you have mixed breed chickens!

I'm not sure what to CALL them ("mixed polish," maybe?) I'm sure they'll look like a Polish in size, shape, and feathering. If they're both laced, then the offspring should be laced as well.

I agree with Egghead_Jr that the daughters will be the same color as their father (silver or gold). The sons will all look silver (dominant gene) but carry gold (recessive gene), so they'll have some gold/red/yellow color bleeding through in places.

Gold rooster with silver hen makes a sexlink cross (gold daughters, silver sons). People don't usually do it with polish, but it's the same genes used for all the common red/gold/brown sexlinks.

Silver rooster with gold hen makes chicks that all look silver, not useful for sexing them at a really young age.