Which crossed pullet should I use?

[Chiduckn]

Opinions on which pullet I should pair up with a rooster I decided to keep from this year? I'll hopefully end up hatching out a few eggs off the pair next year. Might put some of the offspring back to the original parents (grandparents) and make my own thing too. That's yet to be decided though. Rooster is half Silver Duckwing OEGB and half Splash Sumatra. Out of the two pullets, one is a full sister and one is a half sister to the rooster. The half sister is an Ayam Cemani/Sumatra. Apologies for the pictures not being that great.

 

[ChickenLeg]

Id use both! But the oegb/sumatra hen with the rooster youll get 25% duckwing chicks again just like the grandfather and theyll be silver, blue silver, and splash silver duckwing! All the offspring from both hens over the rooster will give you blue,black, splash offspring too!

If you use the original silver oegb over the oegb/sumatra hen youll get 25% silver duckwing and 25% blue silver duckwing.

So a lot of awesome possibilities

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Opinions on which pullet I should pair up with a rooster I decided to keep from this year? I'll hopefully end up hatching out a few eggs off the pair next year. Might put some of the offspring back to the original parents (grandparents) and make my own thing too. That's yet to be decided though. Rooster is half Silver Duckwing OEGB and half Splash Sumatra. Out of the two pullets, one is a full sister and one is a half sister to the rooster. The half sister is an Ayam Cemani/Sumatra. Apologies for the pictures not being that great. View attachment 2941031View attachment 2941033View attachment 2941034View attachment 2941035View attachment 2941036

They are beautiful! I’d use the OEGB/Sumatra pullet.

 

[Chiduckn]

Splash Silver Duckwing sounds awesome! . I figured could come out with some interesting colors but wasn't positive.

 

[Chiduckn]

They are beautiful! I’d use the OEGB/Sumatra pullet.

Thanks!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

You'll want to avoid the fullsister. She's too close genetically and while she'll help enhance great traits, she can also lock in horrible traits. The half sister is far safer genetics wise, but the parents would be even better still

 

[Chiduckn]

You'll want to avoid the fullsister. She's too close genetically and while she'll help enhance great traits, she can also lock in horrible traits. The half sister is far safer genetics wise, but the parents would be even better still

So you would skip breeding the sisters all together and just put the crossed rooster back to his mom (splash sumatra) correct? I could then take a male off that batch and put to the full sister? Possible to get splash silver duckwings outta that still? Lol

 

[ChickenLeg]

So you would skip breeding the sisters all together and just put the crossed rooster back to his mom (splash sumatra) correct? I could then take a male off that batch and put to the full sister? Possible to get splash silver duckwings outta that still? Lol

Its really not a big deal to cross brother and sisters Ive done it plenty of times, I wouldnt do it every year if I had a show quality line I wanted to continue for a long time, but in the short term its not an issue. Especially since you started with 2 different chicken breeds youre far less likely to come across any defects this early on in your breeding.

If you back cross to the grandparents you wont have any chance of splash duckwing, but you will get 50% splashed and 50% blues from the son over the mom

 

[Chiduckn]

Its really not a big deal to cross brother and sisters Ive done it plenty of times, I wouldnt do it every year if I had a show quality line I wanted to continue for a long time, but in the short term its not an issue. Especially since you started with 2 different chicken breeds youre far less likely to come across any defects this early on in your breeding.

If you back cross to the grandparents you wont have any chance of splash duckwing, but you will get 50% splashed and 50% blues from the son over the mom

Awesome. I've heard positive and negative things about inbreeding like that. Just never tried it myself so figured I might. Thanks for all your info! You've got me stuck on splashed silver duckwing! I think I've gotta try and go that way now just to see lol

 

[ChickenLeg]

Awesome. I've heard positive and negative things about inbreeding like that. Just never tried it myself so figured I might. Thanks for all your info! You've got me stuck on splashed silver duckwing! I think I've gotta try and go that way now just to see lol

Definitely will lead to negatives in the long term if you breed a small amount of siblings over and over each generation, if you have a big flock brother and sister generations arent as much of a concern even after multiple years.

Keep us posted! Id love to see some splash duckwings, and that oegb/sumatra hen looks stunning, theyre gunna have some beautiful babies!