Making a Blue Partridge Brahma

[Rootball]

In Europe the Blue Partridge Brahmas seem to be ubiquitous and very popular however in the US all I ever hear about are people wishing that they had some.

Im not a genetics expert but I have a small base of knowledge and from what I know, making a blue partridge, when you have a partridge involves only the addition of the Bl gene which seems to be an easier project than many others have tackled. However maybe somebody could advise me. If I were to go about adding Bl genes to Partridges my best guess is that using a cochin would be the least amount of trouble(I am considering cochin, orpington, or wyandotte) as brahmas would seem to have been made using cochins.

Does this seem to make sense?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

So would you get partridge brahmas then breed the blue into them or are you talking about starting from scratch and making partridge brahmas and adding blue in?

If you are making the whole thing I would say start with dark brahmas and partridge cochins, not sure which parent should be which though. Once you get partridge brahmas use a blue cochin and only keep the best blue partridge birds from that and just go from there.

 

[Rootball]

No I would just use Partridge Brahmas. They arent APA standard color but there are quite a few people in the US who raise them. The great thing is that Dark Brahmas (silver penciled) are really just silver partridges. You can breed Darks and Partridges from the same Pen. The point being that there are many show quality lines of Darks in the US that can be used to improve type and improve Partridge birds.

So you wouldn't have to build partridge Brahmas.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Okay, I didnt know if you had found some or not. A while back I tried to make my own partridge brahmas with dark brahmas, cochins, and rocks. I sold the whole pen to a family and they introduced dark cornish and something else, got alot farther than I did.

So since you will have partridge brahmas already just use a hatchery quality blue cochin, the reason I say hatchery quality is because they tend to have tails. Once you do the first cross just keep the blue F1 and mate back to partridge, it shouldnt take more than 3 generations to get everything set.