What if I wanted.......

[TAMMACLEAN]

If I wanted to get a different type of color for say a bantam how can I do that? I love the lavender chickens, I think they are very pretty. What if I wanted to breed a lavender something to a different chicken what would I get? Do I need like a white chicken of the breed I want to be lavender and breed it with a lavender chicken? And what types of lavender chickens would be good to try this with? Just throwing this out there and looking for any ideas.

 

[nicalandia]

If I wanted to get a different type of color for say a bantam how can I do that? I love the lavender chickens, I think they are very pretty. What if I wanted to breed a lavender something to a different chicken what would I get? Do I need like a white chicken of the breed I want to be lavender and breed it with a lavender chicken? And what types of lavender chickens would be good to try this with? Just throwing this out there and looking for any ideas.

its nice to hear you are very exited about breeding new colors, lavender is a recessive gene that needs two copies to be expressed, one cool project could be a lavender gold columbian buff type of bird, its going to take time but all good thinks do

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

An idea of what type of chicken that might be? I'm still new at this chicken raising so I'm still trying to figure out what everything means. A cool as to what type of chicken I need to start with would be awesome. And I'm willing to wait for results. Not to mention my kids would love to help with this too.

 

[Henk69]

If you want to put a new color on a breed of choice, you need a donor of the color, preferably a similar type of chicken, and chickens of the breed of choice, and opposite gender .
Do a cross to get the F1. These F1 show the dominant genes involved.
With a recessive mutation like lavender you best interbreed the F1.
Hatch lots and select for lavender offspring that looks the most like the breed of choice.
By then get back to us.

With a dominant mutation like blue it is much simpler.
Just keep backcrossing blue offspring to the breed of choice will get you there fastest.

Some traits/genes are sexlinked and if you want them in your breed best start with a donor rooster.
The F1 pullets already have the desired genes pure.
Of course this could work against you for sexlinked genes of the donor that you dont want.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

Thanks!