Project Pictures

[Guest]

Well my project is advancing along nicely...slow but I like the quality I am seeing.  Here are the results of a Wheaten Rooster x Lavender hens, they look very much like brown reds.  Late fall I plan to cross these back together and hopefully produce a lavender wheaten...though the percentage is very low so I will have to hatch a bunch.  I also plan to cross a second pen of wheaten hens with a lavender roo to diversify the gene pool for the 3rd crossing.  Well anyway here are few of the F1 generation.
Full Grown Rooster


Pullet

Rooster, pullet and cockeral

[Jean]

Wow, they do look alot like brown reds.  I wonder what you would get if you bred the splits with a real brown red......

You would have to do some serious record keeping to prevent the lavender gene from popping up.

[Guest]

oohh god please don\'t suggest another project...I already have to many going on right now..  :p

[Mike Gilbert]

Brown reds are already difficult enough to breed without introducing eWH, E, and lav.   You would end up with mongrels.   There are a number of crosses that could be made to produce  birds that \"look like\" brown reds.

[Guest]

I\'m just going to stick to my current lavender wheaten project and when I am finished with these splits I will sell them as EE\'s

[Guest]

Anyone else have any project pictures??