From some of my bantam outcrossings I've ended up with a few BB red pullets. There may be some cockerels also, but since they are identical to wheaten males I figured all of them with that phenotype were wheatens and may have sold several as culls earlier in the season. I would have to catch the several I saved and check their toe punchings to know their parentage.
A couple of the pullets appear to have a dilute gene, since they are extra light. This may have been in the silvers and perhaps enhanced the silver/white color. Maybe it also reduces or covers autosomal red in the silver males (?). Anyway, the best pullet may be useful for someone to use with a silver male to produce silver pullets. I could bring her to Portage...just let me know.
Also, If you have an interest in the best dark BB red pullet let me know.
There are a coulple more like the ones in the photos, but they have darker heads and may carry charcoal (cha) or some other eumelanin enhancing gene.
John are you pursuing BBred by any chance? That would be a fun color to see finished
Quote from: Cesar Villegas on November 20, 2018, 12:56:07 PM
John are you pursuing BBred by any chance? That would be a fun color to see finished
No and I didn't hear of any interest in them, so I sold them as butcher birds...I keep cutting back a little at a time.