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John:

--- Quote ---the adults to look kind of like Brown Reds
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It looks like Curtis knew what he was talking about!

Susie,
The birds look great.  It will be neat to see what colors and patterns you get with the next generation.

FYI, A few years ago I used a black bantam cockerel with silver hackles, like the one you describe, over my silver females.  I didn\'t have a silver male to use and figured he was the best I had to work with.  He had the right colors and great type.  As I recall some of the offspring looked birchen.

Guest:
Suz,

Using down color to identify the genetic make up of a chicken is very useful.


The chicks that are eWh/eWh and Lav+/Lav+ or Lav+/lav should have normal wheaten down color. This should be a clear cream down color over the entire body of the chick.

The 1/16 lavender wheaten you may get would be a lighter color than cream wheatens.

The EE or extended black chicks will be basicly black with cream or white on their bellies and breasts. Some black may run up onto their chins.

The E/eWh Lav+/Lav+ or Lav+/lav chicks  should look very much similar to the EE chicks.

The E/eWh lav/lav chick should be light blue on top and with a cream or white belly.

Your 1/16 lavender chick will be light blue all over.


When the birds get their adult plumage. The males that have the brown/gold color in the secondary feathers are the eWh/eWh birds.  

The males that are heterozygous will look like the  F1 male you have.


--- Quote --- I can picture what the males will look like because I have a porcelain d\'uccle, but I\'m not sure what the lavender wheaten females would look like (hackle and body coloring
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The lavender dilutes both black and red/gold.  Normally wheaten females are a wheat color or a salmon-brown color with the color being lighter on the breast and becoming even lighter as the color approaches the belly and  tail.  Just imagine this color pattern but the lavender gene will dilute the colors making them much lighter.

Rooster

Suz:
These are 2 more pullets, 3 weeks younger than the pair above, and have less color.  I had two d\'Anver males breeding the Ameraucana hens.



I had planned to breed from all 3 females this spring.  Any opinions on whether that should still be my plan?

Mike, thanks for the reply and I hate to be the bearer of bad news about your black golds.  Does the picture of these pullets help in your decision to test cross or was it the picture of the cockerel that showed you the sex-linked gold?  Will that s gene have any effect on my goal for lavender wheatens?

Thanks,
Susie

Guest:
Suz,

I know I am not a part of your circle but I would like to add my two cents. The birds look birchen. They could have some red in them if they were extended black but they have way too much in my opinion. Sex linked blacks are E/eWh heterozygous and the females will have some red in the breast but it is a solid red or a splashed red. I could be wrong and I have been wrong in the past. Just my two cents.

Rooster

grisaboy:
I had planned to breed from all 3 females this spring.  Any opinions on whether that should still be my plan?

Hi Susie,

Your birds look great.  Iwould breed all of the females if I were you.  The hens have essentially the same genetics and since you want to hatch a lot of F2 chicks, the more egg generators you have, the better.  Good luck with the next generation.

Curtis

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