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bantamhill:
I actually have a few  half breed chicks running around and I am producing more. I have successfully crossed lavendar bantam cock on a large fowl Ameraucana hen and hope to produce more from that cross.


The offspring are interesting:

Bantam Old English Lavendar cock x Bantam Ameraucana hens - coal black chicks with single combs

Bantam Ameraucana Black cock x Bantam Old English
Lavendar hen - coal black chicks with single combs

Bantam Old English Lavendar cock x Large Fowl Black Ameraucana hen - black with brown/red feathers on neck and head

My next step is to cross the siblings next year and hope for a few lavendar chicks to cross to black Ameraucana bantam and large fowl.

John:
Some of my d\'Anver/Ameraucana cross birds had buff/gold in them and I culled them.  I used two lavender d\'Anver males over three black Ameraucana females.  I think the buff/gold came from one of the males, since he had some brassiness to him.  The keepers look very nice.
I have a few from Michael\'s cross too with single combs.  One that I culled was a beautiful blue cockerel with blue legs and a single comb.  Any ideas on why he would be blue?  The Ameraucanas must have carried the single comb gene.  I\'ll cross Michael\'s strain with mine in the spring.  
Micheal, let me know if you want a cockerel from my cross.  I have extras.  
I also put the d\'Anvers over two LF hens, one black and one smoke colored.  It looks like I have one pullet from each of those matings.  Most of the bantam X LF eggs weren\'t fertile.
 

Mike Gilbert:
John, the blue cockerel came out of your mating because the lavender parent had a BL gene that was passed on to the chick.   The BL couldn\'t have come from the black, or the black parent would have been blue, not black.   The single combs came about because both parents passed on that trait to their offspring.  Had the D\'Anvers been pure for rose comb, and the Ameraucana hen passed on a gene for single comb, the chick\'s comb would have been rose, not single, because rose is dominant over single.   Your single comb females will probably not lay blue eggs, but tan or brown.   This is not a hard and fast rule, but remember the blue egg shell gene is closely related to the pea comb.   These genes are located relatively close together on the same chromosome.    I\'ll be anxiously waiting to find out if either  of you get lavender males next year without the characteristic brassiness.   Perhaps the cross onto the black ameraucanas  will do the trick?   Time will tell.

John:
I don\'t have him anymore to check, but was quite sure he was toe punched as coming from Michael\'s eggs.
He looked just like the other cockerels that I hatched from him, with single combs, but they are black and he was blue.  
I still think the single comb is from Michael\'s lavender OE and black Ameraucanas that have the single comb gene.  
I haven\'t studied the combs on the pullets, but most of the d\'Anver/Ameraucana cockerels have walnut combs (as they should) and a couple look like they have pea combs!
In the spring I\'ll cross the two strains, mixing blood lines from two strains of black Ameraucanas with laverder OE and lavender d\'Anver.  I think this will get me quicker to where I to go.

John:
I examined the lavender/black cross birds yesterday and noticed the two cockerels with pea combs are also from Michael\'s eggs.  That makes sense, because at least one of the Ameraucanas that he used must have carried genes for both pea and single combs.  I toe punched the chicks when they hatched.  That\'s how I can tell what matings they came from.

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