Dun variety project

[Pedro Nunes Marques]

I believe I’m getting a lighter khaki color.
They are offspring from a mother with the same color and a Buff male, some are hatching khaki and others Buff again.
It wouldn’t really be an outcross for the Buffs, but I believe I may be achieving a new genetic combination. My Buffs aren’t very fertile and tend to go broody easily.
The khaki hen, on the other hand, has a better profile, she’s larger in size, lays many more eggs, and hasn’t gone broody.
I hope to get some good Buffs from her, and I plan to continue working with a separate khaki line to see what I can achieve.
What do you all think?

[Pedro Nunes Marques]

This hen is a daughter of a khaki that appeared here, a recessive from the Buff line that came from John.
I crossed her with a black male and now have two females from that line. I’m currently breeding them with Buffs, hoping to achieve a sort of quicker partial outcross for the Buffs.
I also hope to clean out the black color sooner than it usually happens.
Later I might cross her back to blacks again, I’m not sure yet. My main priority right now is to improve the Buffs by reducing their level of inbreeding.
I have no idea how many generations it will take to get clean Buffs.

[Elijah Ensor]

Pedro, I know this is a Dun thread, but I too work with the LF buffs.   I've done several matings and got a number of straight buffs out, but few pullets.   I'll be playing with some outcrosses too.