What would be the outcome of this cross

[Chickensontheincline]

Ive had a few different variety’s of purebred chooks but have recently been thinking of experimenting with crossbred chicks

Currently I have three three week old speckled Sussex cross mottled brahma chicks

all three chicks are different colours (see attached pictures)

I was wondering what crossing them with a splash Australorp would yield
Any opinions on what colour/egg laying I could expect or has anyone done this?

 

[LoveOfFeathers]

Do you have a picture of the parents?

 

[Chickensontheincline]

Do you have a picture of the parents?

Unfortunately I don’t, I only know that they were a speckled Sussex and mottled brahma
The lady I got the day olds from only hatches the eggs she gets off another lady
The three chicks I got were all different colours but the other three she had were all the same colour as the light one in the pictures

 

[Chickensontheincline]

I believe brown, but I’d never heard of a brown mottled Brahma before, only black mottled, I did see some ‘speckled Brahma’ on google so I’m unsure if that’s what they mean or if there is in fact a brown mottled

 

[JustAnotherWeirdo]

I’m unsure of how the chicks would look but you’ll most likely get a chicken that lays light eggs since that’s what Australorps and speckled Sussex lay

 

[Chickensontheincline]

I also would have thought that if it was a black mottled I would have black chicks as I’m under the impression that black is dominant so the red of the speckled Sussex would yield black chicks over a black mottled brahma, but I don’t know how the genes work with speckled/mottled chooks

 

[LoveOfFeathers]

Breeding them with a splash will most likely create a blue colored bird that might be mottled.

 

[LoveOfFeathers]

If the blacks breed true then yes, offspring would be black.

 

[Chickensontheincline]

I’m unsure of how the chicks would look but you’ll most likely get a chicken that lays light eggs since that’s what Australorps and speckled Sussex lay

The egg colour I think would be a given but I’m more curious on how the chook would look, I’ve heard splash over black will yield blue but I’m unsure how the mottle/speckled genes work and how the red of the chicks will factor in

 

[Chickensontheincline]

Breeding them with a splash will most likely create a blue colored bird that might be mottled.

That’s what I was hoping for, i’m a sucker for a blue chook