What will the chick be?

[Lets Get Chicken With It]

If I have a chicken whose father was a BCM, mother was a Welsummer, and then I breed that chicken with my BCM, what will that chickens offspring be?
BCM = Black Copper Maran

 

[sourland]

Crossbred chickens the pullets of which will lay dark eggs.

 

[nuthatched]

A mutt, a backyard mix, a heinz 57

 

[Lets Get Chicken With It]

Crossbred chickens the pullets of which will lay dark eggs.

Would that be breeding out the Welsummer in the offspring? I don't necessarily want to do that.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Would that be breeding out the Welsummer in the offspring? I don't necessarily want to do that.

What do you mean by this? The offspring would simply not be the same breed anymore. If you want pure Welsummer offspring, just breed Welsummers together

 

[Lets Get Chicken With It]

What do you mean by this? The offspring would simply not be the same breed anymore. If you want pure Welsummer offspring, just breed Welsummers together

Well, I meant exactly what I said. Would that technically breed out the Welsummer in the offspring?

 

[Lets Get Chicken With It]

Crossbred chickens the pullets of which will lay dark eggs.

Do you think they would still be spotted from the Welsummer? Or would that be too much Black Copper Maran in the blood line?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Well, I meant exactly what I said. Would that technically breed out the Welsummer in the offspring?

No it wouldn't. It'd take a lot of generations and selective breeding for that to happen

 

[Lets Get Chicken With It]

No it wouldn't. It'd take a lot of generations and selective breeding for that to happen

Thank you, that's good to know! So, do you think they would still be nicley spotted from the Welsummer? Or would that be too much Black Copper Maran in the blood line?

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Well, I meant exactly what I said. Would that technically breed out the Welsummer in the offspring?

It would still be half Welsummer regardless. Equal that and Marans. The offspring would be mostly black with some color in saddle/hackles like a Marans since the ER locus (birchen) is dominant over e+ (wild type) of Welsummers