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Crossing Buff to Wheaten to improve Buff

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Guest:
We wanted to improve the line of Buffs we have by breeding back to Wheaten.  We decided to only keep one Wheaten and one Blue Wheaten roo for our Wheaten breeding program.  Our striking Wheaten roo was killed a month ago.  If I used the Blue Wheaten roo to make Buff Splits, will that throw a wrench in the color results of my splits and set that program back?  

We are trying to work with what we have vs integrating a new roo into the mix this year.

jerryse:
Some breeds are said to carry blue in the buff.It should not cause a problem.However you could weed out the ones carrying blue if you wish.50% of the chicks will carry blue and it should be visable in the tail of both sexes as they mature.

Guest:
Which would require a little more time before culling...  I\'ll mull it over a bit and see if the program is worth it for us.  From what I see, there doesn\'t seem to be as much interest in the Buff Ams.  I would like to know how other Ameraucana breeders are doing with their Buff lines?    

faith valley:
This last year we crossed our wheaten into our buff to improve hatchibility and viability.  We kept 6 females and 4 males to work with for this 2012 season.  The 1/2 buff, 1/2 wheaten youngsters finished out nicely- very little black in the tails.

We are just now setting eggs from these crossed youngsters... Time will tell how this first batch of chicks will look; they are due to hatch on the 5th.

Jean:
The common issues I have seen in the buff lines are the light legs, uneven color and egg color issues.

It probably won\'t help the leg issues to breed to wheaten.  And the uneven shades of buff won\'t be helped either by breeding to wheaten.

The only advantage I see is maybe improving the egg color.

I have already managed to get about 1/2 of my gals laying a nicer egg by using a male I purchased that I know hatched from a very blue egg.

I think the buff color is one of the hardest to work with.  From what I understand, uneven color is common in all birds of buff plumage and it takes years of work to get that color \"mastered\" in your flock.

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