Anyone crossed an Australorp with an Ancona?

[AustralorpsAU]

Just wondering if anyone has ever crossed an Australorp with an Ancona? Some pics would be great if anyone has any? Thanks

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Ohh and what colour egg? White or Brown

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Does anybody genetically know what the result would be from crossing a blue Australorp cockerel with an Ancona would make?

 

[bramblefir]

Does anybody genetically know what the result would be from crossing a blue Australorp cockerel with an Ancona would make?

You would get blue and black chicks that carry a mottling gene. Egg color would probably be a pale brown/tinted.

 

[AustralorpsAU]

You would get blue and black chicks that carry a mottling gene. Egg color would probably be a pale brown/tinted.

Thanks for replying. So the original offspring wouldn't be mottled but it their offspring would be mottled correct?

 

[bramblefir]

Thanks for replying. So the original offspring wouldn't be mottled but it their offspring would be mottled correct?

Correct. Mottling is a recessive, so it requires 2 genes (1 from each parent) to show. Sometimes chicks that are split to mottling (have 1 mottled and 1 non-mottled gene) will have a few white spots in their juvenile plumage that molt out when they get their adult plumage. You could cross the offspring (F1) from the original cross together and get 25% Mottled, 50% Split to Mottled, and 25% Non-Mottled. Crossing one of the F1 birds back over the Mottled parent would yield 50% Mottled and 50% Split to Mottled.

Are you starting a Mottled Australorp project? If so, I would recommend using a Mottled Orpington instead of the Ancona. Orpingtons and Australorps are very closely related and have similar type. It would be a bit less work to prefect the shape of a Mottled Australorp if you used the Orp.

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Correct. Mottling is a recessive, so it requires 2 genes (1 from each parent) to show. Sometimes chicks that are split to mottling (have 1 mottled and 1 non-mottled gene) will have a few white spots in their juvenile plumage that molt out when they get their adult plumage. You could cross the offspring (F1) from the original cross together and get 25% Mottled, 50% Split to Mottled, and 25% Non-Mottled. Crossing one of the F1 birds back over the Mottled parent would yield 50% Mottled and 50% Split to Mottled.

Are you starting a Mottled Australorp project? If so, I would recommend using a Mottled Orpington instead of the Ancona. Orpingtons and Australorps are very closely related and have similar type. It would be a bit less work to prefect the shape of a Mottled Australorp if you used the Orp.

No i was not going to do a project but i just have one Ancona in with all my Aussies so just wondering! Mottled Australorp would be pretty cool though! Thanks so much

 

[PolloPollito]

Just wondering if anyone has ever crossed an Australorp with an Ancona? Some pics would be great if anyone has any? Thanks

I know this is multiple years later, but I have a chick that’s across from a blue Astro of male and a female Ancona… the chick on the right

 

[ShrekDawg]

I know this is multiple years later, but I have a chick that’s across from a blue Astro of male and a female Ancona… the chick on the right View attachment 3821379

Sooooo cute!!!!