Posted by Karen on 7/21/2006, 8:03 pm, in reply to "breeding blues" If you took a splash and bred it to the black rooster you would get all blue. If you bred the black rooster to a blue hen you would get 1/2 blue and 1/2 black. Black Breasted Red is e+/e+. e+/e+ is the wild type gene. Black is E/E or ER/ER. Since E is the most dominate your black rooster could have one gene for black & one e+ or any of the other genes that are recessive to black (E), especially since he has red hackle & wings. Unless he is carrying e+ that is covered by the black gene you couldn't breed BBR from him. Karen
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Breeding blues is a little like breeding tufts. That is you only get the blue color when you have 1 copy of the blue gene (Bl). So when you breed blue to blue (Bl/bl x Bl/bl) you get 1/2 blue, 1/4 non blue and 1/4 splash. Two blue genes gives you splash & splash is mostly white.
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