Old English Game Bantams

[cluckingheck]

holding a treat in front of him did wonders to keep Tater Tot still

 

[PioneerChicks]

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Handsome boy!

 

[Ruby Rogue]

When did your girls begin to lay?

 

[cluckingheck]

The little big man

 

[Yard Farmer]

I thought i'd try to bring thus thread back to life!

I got OEGB about a year ago now and I am absolutely loving them!
Here's a pic of my black, lemon blue a 2 mix breed cockerels.

 

[Silexian]

I have had Old English for quite a few years now. This is Herb my very curious Silver Duckwing rooster. Standing on the patio table watching me having coffee. Outside on one of our cooler Saturday mornings.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Hi everyone! I’ve got and fawn pair, khaki hen, SDW hen and a mixed GDW hen. I hope to be able to start breeding nice quality ones. I will have some little chicks hatch soon. I will have to get some pictures of them. Are there any more verities of duckwing besides fawn, Khaki, silver and golden?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh yeah, there are tons of duckwing varieties in OEGBs! Black Breasted Red, Blue Red, Fawn Red, Silver Duckwing, Blue Silver Duckwing, Fawn Silver Duckwing, Golden Duckwing, Blue Golden Duckwing, Crele, and Red Pyle are all of the duckwing-based varieties in the standard to my knowledge, though there are several more beyond those as well. Pick a combination of dilution genes and more than likely someone has put it in a duckwing OEGB variety.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Oh yeah, there are tons of duckwing varieties in OEGBs! Black Breasted Red, Blue Red, Fawn Red, Silver Duckwing, Blue Silver Duckwing, Fawn Silver Duckwing, Golden Duckwing, Blue Golden Duckwing, Crele, and Red Pyle are all of the duckwing-based varieties in the standard to my knowledge, though there are several more beyond those as well. Pick a combination of dilution genes and more than likely someone has put it in a duckwing OEGB variety.

That’s cool! Could u put all those colors together and get them to breed out true?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

No, several of those varieties would not really be completely compatible due to certain altering genes that some of them have. Crele with any of the others would produce males heterozygous for barring; that is, with only one copy of barring instead of two so they aren't appropriately colored for Crele. Reds with Silvers would make Golden males and either Red females or inappropriately colored Silver females. For the same reason, Goldens with Silvers would make some Goldens and some not-quite-Silvers because Goldens have a reddening gene like the Reds do (not sure which exactly, I think autosomal red) that Silvers don't have and that would mess up the Silvers' coloring from my understanding. Any of the Silver Duckwings should be compatible with each other, but you could get other varieties like Platinum Silver Duckwing (that's both fawn and blue on the same bird). You could technically breed any of the Reds together and get true varieties as well, though Red Pyle might throw a wrench in the works there due to generally being based on the dominant white gene, which can let black flecks leak through when heterozygous. Red Pyle x any of the other Reds would make leaky Red Pyles, in other words.

So basically, the ____ Reds are all (mostly) compatible, the ____ Silver Duckwings are all compatible, and the ____ Golden Duckwings are compatible, but intermixing any of those groups with each other is where it gets a bit more complicated.