Who would you pair this little guy up with?

[peewee]

I guess I didn't ask the right question. I am aware that the bird is an English white (should have said that). I am not trying to find out how to put big spots of color on a white bird. What I am trying to find out is how to get the blending of colors that is in the spot that is on his rump. All the English whites that have large spots of color like this, at least in my covey, have very distinct spots. "Wild" spots are all "wild" color with no lacing what so ever of white. The bird above has white lacing on his brown feathers. That is what I would like to pull up.



Attack Chicken, very pretty little hen. Actually, I think all of your little babies are very nice.

 

[JJMR794]

Pee Wee The Color Spots On Your Bird Are Wild Or Brown Color... And Its The Color Spot Patern Your Trying To Isolate And Reproduce... I Would Say Another Ew With Wild Spots, Another Ew In General, Or A Jumbo Brown.

 

[Sumatra503]

Could EW's be bred to Wild colored, Tuxedo, and Browns? I've never dealt with the EW's before and was wondering.

If you wanted to bring out the white lacing I would breed him to as light of a wild marked hen as you can find.

 

[mhwc56]

I'm reeeeeeeally new to this
i do know Whites are RECESSIVE ....
so
if you breed White with Brown( wild color) you will see primarily brown (?)
White to Tuxedos gives you mostly Tuxedos and some whites (?)
Whites to Range gives you Ranges and White with maybe some f1 Tuxs (?)
Whites to Gold gives you lighter golds(?), some Whites, and ...(?)

 

[Whiskey Bay]

We have mainly Pharoah Coturnix( wild colored),along with Texas A&M, an I myself have Italian Speckled.In our experience when we had the Pharoah and the A&M whites together ,the majority of offspring were white,usually with a spot on the top of the head.Their is a large scale breeder I know who is developing several new varieties using them.He has one that is coming out early new year to public with the release being published with an article in Backyard Poultry.He also has two more in the works I had the pleasure of seeing in the works.Very nice birds.

 

[mhwc56]

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the Italian Speckled are really Manchurians /Golds/ Manchurian Golds .
My understanding is the Texas A&M whites are the "jumbo" whites...as opposed to the English Whites which are the pharoah/standard size Whites.
Wild Colored are browns ( pharoah browns and jumbo browns)
That's correct isn't it folks...?

 

[JJMR794]

Quote:
the Italian Speckled are really Manchurians /Golds/ Manchurian Golds .
My understanding is the Texas A&M whites are the "jumbo" whites...as opposed to the English Whites which are the pharoah/standard size Whites.
Wild Colored are browns ( pharoah browns and jumbo browns)
That's correct isn't it folks...?

YESSIM THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Interesting, and what I have been seeing this last hatch. Not the majority being EW or A&M but what would cause that.
A&M split for Silver. Explains alot.

edited to add: Waite a minute, if they are what I am thinking. Sign me up for 2 dozen eggs, taking a waiting list right. How many years did that take?

 

[joe125]

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Silver coturnix...What is that?
Are you sure you are not talking about buttons? I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I don't know what a silver coturnix is...

Please explain

 

[mhwc56]

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