what to breed back to?

EnnerM97

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this is a loaded question!
i have paint, mottled, and splash on the way in chocolate and black (plus some mauve.)

what is the best path to take to keep these colors going? i’m doing research, but id appreciate if someone can simplify it a bit. thank you!
 
Hi,

I didn't understand the title of your post when I'd seen it before. Now I read it and get it! Sorry this took you so long to get some kind of answer.

One thread that I refer to for chocolate and mauve, splash, and a few other combos is here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...n-color-genetics.1219858/page-2#post-19511066

This is info for breeding paints I've picked up through the years so comes from many sources:

To get paints, you can breed a paint with a solid black or blue chicken, or you can breed paints to each other. Either way should give you about 50% paint chicks. The other half of chicks will differ depending on which way you set up the pen.

Paint x black = paint and black, about equal numbers

Paint x blue = paint, blue paint, black, blue, about equal numbers of each.​
Blue paint is like paint, but the colored bits are black rather than blue.​

Paint x paint gives about half paint, a quarter black, a quarter white without paint. The whites from a paint x paint breeding might be dominant whites and can be bred to blacks and produce 100% paint in that next generation.​

Breeding paint x white (if the white comes from a line of paints) should give 50% paint and 50% white. Breeding a white like that to a solid black or blue will give 100% paint.
 

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