Who do I breed to whom?

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:51 pm

This is just meant to be a fun contemplation, so let me simplify the question.
Who would you breed to whom and why ?

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:25 am

OK in that case Blue to Columbian, hope for a black cockerel, then breed that to a splash hen to get blue.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:14 am

Cool.

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:16 pm

so, from where i am sitting now....i guess i "need" to know a couple of things before i start playing and trying to self destruct my brain too :) First, what are your goals? Colour? Blue columbian? other? (or do you not care really right now just looking for ideas?) and Second, what is the e locus on your wyandottes? Are they solid brownish chicks? yellow? striped? What i can find is wyandottes are usually on eb/eb....but i just cannot remember what your chicks looked like...i'm thinking yellowish but my brain has started vacation early ;-P

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:40 pm

How many hens? I'm afraid I, personally, would rotate all three roosters through the various hens and hatch a batch from each pairing. I'm curious like that :/ I would right start now with the ones that are laying :D

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 4:36 pm

windwalkingwolf wrote:How many hens? I'm afraid I, personally, would rotate all three roosters through the various hens and hatch a batch from each pairing. I'm curious like that :/ I would right start now with the ones that are laying :D

Just as I was thinking to myself, where is Jan, surely she would be up for an adventure..................must be too busy cooking and here you are, and you never disappoint.

BTW the answer is 20

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 4:45 pm

WLLady wrote:so, from where i am sitting now....i guess i "need" to know a couple of things before i start playing and trying to self destruct my brain too :) First, what are your goals? Colour? Blue columbian? other? (or do you not care really right now just looking for ideas?) and Second, what is the e locus on your wyandottes? Are they solid brownish chicks? yellow? striped? What i can find is wyandottes are usually on eb/eb....but i just cannot remember what your chicks looked like...i'm thinking yellowish but my brain has started vacation early ;-P

At this point definitely just playing. There is too many unknowns, the outcross I did, I think just proved what I suspected from the beginning, the Columbians are incomplete and F1 outcross to Blues gave me dilute Blue, and F2 is the Blue Columbian
The Blue Columbian intrigue me somewhat, so definite possibility.
The chicks are yellow.........

Hurray I am on the roost!!!;)

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 5:55 pm

Congrats on getting onto the roost!
So pretty much any combination of columbian with anyone else will give you columbians back (at least some, but if they aren't "pure" columbian you'll end up with some not)....and blue x blue = blue/black/splash, and of course blue x black will give you blue and black back (and then columbian if you use columbian anything). i think the "funnest" (if i can use that non-word) for me would be taking the blue male, over the splash female and seeing what happens...if they aren't "pure" you could get some partridge birds coming back out LOL. of course that doesn't help with your blue project...or your blue columbian project. hm. i am possibly the world's worst person to ask, because i love the "lets see what will happen" genetically....

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 6:18 pm

Ontario Chick wrote:
windwalkingwolf wrote:How many hens? I'm afraid I, personally, would rotate all three roosters through the various hens and hatch a batch from each pairing. I'm curious like that :/ I would right start now with the ones that are laying :D
Just as I was thinking to myself, where is Jan, surely she would be up for an adventure..................must be too busy cooking and here you are, and you never disappoint. BTW the answer is 20

:D. Breeding interesting birds and wildcards just to see what comes out of it is one of my great pleasures, so much fun, and babies are usually easy to sell if you aren't able to grow them all out. I think if you start NOW, factoring in alone time for the ladies between fellas for pure eggs, You could have all possible chicks within a year and a half. Much sooner if you know which hens lay what eggs and can keep all the girls together :D

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:52 pm

Kathy, were you thinking Blue Columbian male over Splash hens?
The only combination that has never crossed my mind.

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