Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)

[Florida Bullfrog]

This is the pullet that lays the blue eggs. She was hatched from a white egg. Can anyone see any traits that remind them of a blue egg laying breed?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

View attachment 2944848View attachment 2944849This is the pullet that lays the blue eggs. She was hatched from a white egg. Can anyone see any traits that remind them of a blue egg laying breed?

Starlight blue eggers and whiting true blues are just a couple of the leghorn x Easter egger crosses hatcheries breed that have some similar traits. Then there’s legbars, though the father would’ve had to be a legbar mix to produce an unbarred daughter.

 

[nicalandia]

Can anyone see any traits that remind them of a blue egg laying breed?

None, she looks like a regular game hen

 

[nicalandia]

Starlight blue eggers and whiting true blues are just a couple of the leghorn x Easter egger crosses hatcheries breed that have some similar traits.

Leghorn and their crosses have rather large combs, white earlobes and yellow shanks. Easter Egger crosses many of them carry pea comb and beards

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Leghorn and their crosses have rather large combs, white earlobes and yellow shanks. Easter Egger crosses many of them carry pea comb and beards

Yes. She must have a lot of gamefowl blood. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t a cross, even if it happened a couple generations back.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Starlight blue eggers and whiting true blues are just a couple of the leghorn x Easter egger crosses hatcheries breed that have some similar traits. Then there’s legbars, though the father would’ve had to be a legbar mix to produce an unbarred daughter.

Whiting true blue seems like a viable candidate. In googling their pics, it seems like their genetics can vary a lot and I saw some straight combed hens purporting to be of the breed that were similarly built without obvious head tufts or muffs.

 

[nicalandia]

Yes. She must have a lot of gamefowl blood. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t a cross, even if it happened a couple generations back.

it could also be a spontaneous mutation, it would be the third one on that allele.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

it could also be a spontaneous mutation, it would be the third one on that allele.

It would be neat if that was the case, but I don’t see any way to know for sure. Therefore I think I have to presume something was mixed further up the chain unless evidence to the contrary could somehow arise. A previous mix would be the most likely explanation by odds alone.

I’m still going to cross her to N1 and see what the results are. I already have two eggs off of her in the incubator I willy nilly threw into a batch of pure Cracker eggs.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I do note she has the pale face associated with Blueface hens. In sunlight her face has a slight blue iridescence.

 

[nicalandia]

It would be neat if that was the case, but I don’t see any way to know for sure. Therefore I think I have to presume something was mixed further up the chain unless evidence to the contrary could somehow arise. A previous mix would be the most likely explanation by odds alone.

I agree, the only way to know if it's an allelic mutation(of Oocyan) it's with a full Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) Analysis.