What would these produce?

[3clucks]

So I want to get into breeding and I currently have a black frizzle Cochin cockerel, if I wanted to breed mottled babies would I need to get a white hen or how would that work? Is there another thread on here that goes into further detail on this topic?

 

[PirateGirl]

I don't know a ton on genetics, but I'd do a search on the mottled gene. I'm pretty sure the mottled gene is its own thing so it is not just a cross of black and white parents.

 

[PirateGirl]

http://www.sedgwickcommon.co.uk/wyandotte-poultry-characteristics/breeding-mottled-chickens/

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1006.5209&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

[Notaneggspurt]

Might have more responses in this section. Lots of knowledgeable posters that are pretty active.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/exhibition-genetics-breeding-to-the-sop.16188/

 

[The Moonshiner]

A mottled bird is a black bird with two mottled genes.
Without breeding two mottled birds together you won't produce any mottled chicks.
If you had one mottled bird you could breed it to a non mottled and all the chicks would carry one mottled gene so they wouldn't express it. Breeding those chicks together or back to the mottled parent would then produce some mottled chicks.