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Not necessarily, it's just Blue Mottled is a lot harder to find than plain ol black Mottled in my experience, mostly because several hatcheries carry black Mottled Cochin bantams whereas none that I am aware of have Blue Mottled. Blue Mottled likely would end up being more expensive as a result...

The mottleds from the second generation crossed back to Calico would make roughly equal numbers of mottled and calico offspring, but that would not help at all in improving the amount of color leakage in the mottleds. It probably would be simplest to wait until you get a Mottled from a...

You could! The mottling gene is recessive, so a first generation cross of mottled to non-mottled will make mottled carriers. That means that all of the birds from the crosses I described in my last post also carry the gene for mottling since Calico is a mottled variety, they just don't express...

So, to reiterate for clarity, first generation cross of Calico x Blue, you'll get leaky Blues and leaky Blacks. Crossing those leaky Blues from the first generation back to Calico will get you a small portion of Blue Calico / Blue Mille Fleur in the second generation. The rest of the second...

Calico x Blue would result in leaky Blues and Blacks as well. Blue is the result of a gene called extended black (E) or sometimes birchen (E^R) with extra melanizers, in either case with a dilution gene that turns black plumage to blue. Extended black is dominant over patterns and birchen is...

White Cochins are recessive white, which is not the correct white gene to make the paint pattern. You need dominant white for that, for which you'd have to out-cross to a different breed that has that gene in order to introduce it into your Cochins. It's possible, if he just happens to carry...