How to get Coronation Sussex?

[eveleychook]

Is it possible to get coronation sussex chickens if I were to breed my Lavender Sussex Rooster to my Light Sussex pullets? If not what kind of colour chicks would I get? What colour would the male and female chicks be? Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[1muttsfan]

You could try punching them into the Chicken Calculator - http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

And an interesting source of color genetics information - http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page0.html

 

[1muttsfan]

And here is someone else who had a similar question
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/breeding-sussex-chickens-colour-genetics.1192059/
I would scroll down to niclandia's post.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

I don't believe it's as hard as the chicken calc dictates. It really comes down to how they produced your line of Lavender Sussex.

No first generation birds will be Corination. Breed the F1 birds together and hatch a lot. I think the chances of producing that lavender columbian pattern are better than the calculator implies.

 

[1muttsfan]

It looks to me that all the offspring will be black, like a black sex link only with silver instead of copper around the neck, homozygous for Lavender. But as you say that depends on how they get the color.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I had a whole reply typed up and it just vanished. Anyway, where are you located that you have Lavender Sussex? And I'll ask @The Moonshiner and @nicalandia to take a peek and see if they have some advice.