How do I get Buff Columbian Wyandottes?

[yoker]

How would you breed them?
Like what crosses would you do?

 

[Dustin Biery]

Are yoiu wanting to breed standard or bantam wyandottes?

 

[tadkerson]

What kind of variety and breeds of birds do you have to work with?

Do you plan on finding birds to breed to produce the buff wyandotte.


Off the top of my mind you will need a partridge wyndotte and a rhode island red to start with.

If you could find a columbian rock or a columbian wyandotte they would work also.

It all depends on what you have or can find.

Somebody on this forum, I can not remember: I believe it was a female, asked me how to produce buff columbian. If the person reads this, I think she will have some valuable information to share. I saw the pictures of her buff columbian and they are very good looking birds.


Tim

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I have the book from Grant Brereton about wyandotte colors, it tells how to make buff columbian. I will be right back with the 'instructions'.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Okay here are the 'instructions' on how to make buff columbian wyandottes.

First you will need a partridge cock and columbian hens. Breed those and you will get sexlinks, males will be columbian and females will be poor buff columbian. Breed one of the sons back to the mother and you will get:

25% columbian females
25% buff columbian females
25% columbian males
25% impure columbian males which are hard to distinguish from columbian males

Then breed a buff columbian female to her father and it will produce:

25% columbain females
25% impure columbian males
25% buff columbian males
25% buff columbian females

Then select the best buff columbians and breed from them. Only keep the best from there, dont breed from mossy backed females. Males with black flecks in their thighs tend to throw mossy backed females.

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

Quote:
Great Info!!

 

[yoker]

Thanks a heap.!!!!!!!
I Have:
Rhode Island reds
Buff Orpingtons
Barred Rocks
Speckled sussex
White silkie
Light sussex
And I am going to get:
GLW
SLW
Maybe Buff Brahmas

And I can get a Partridge Wyandotte
Flyingmokeypoop: How much is that book?
I have thought of geting it. does it say how to get Buff laced wandottes in that book?

I wouldn't mind if it was standred or bantem

 

[encorepistol]

here is where you can get the book http://www.tomhugginsweb.com/gbpoultrybooks3.html

 

[ceadar post]

You can also use GL wyandotte rooster to columbian female. Thats what I am using. Mike

 

[yoker]

Is that book the same one as this one: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wyand/BRKWyand.html
ceadar post: Could I use a Light Sussex X GLW?
Flyingmonkeypoop: Could I use Light Sussex x Partridge Wyandotte?