How do you get the colour blue red ?

[madmax]

Can someone tell me how to breed the colour blue red.
i read on the dutch leghorn club u put a brown cockerel to a pyle hen , but i think you will just get a darker pyle. is there another way ?

[khrday]

[e-mail] if you try this lady her name is angie, and she breeds bluereds she would she would give you some advice

[danhonour]

A Brown Leghorn crossed with a Blue (or Splashed) Leghorn will yeild some Blue Reds in the F1.

[madmax]

a brown cockerel with a blue pullet or vice versa and how would u get a splash then any pics

[danhonour]

There is no sex linkage so it makes no difference which way they are crossed.Splashed Leghorns are the white counterparts of Blue Leghorns,there are also Blacks from Blue Leghorn matings. Blue x Pile Leghorns will also make Blue-reds,in a percentage of offspring.

[angie1]

sorry madmax have a new email [e-mail]

but it does make a difference
the only way you will make blue red is white roo over brown hen then mate the first offspring back to the brown hen don't use the white roo again you end up with white under feathers in all the line and it takes ages to get out
if you put a brown crl to a blue hen all you end up with is more brown and no blue reds and you would never get splash from a brow to blue
would only get splash from a black to white mateing and blue x pile give you washed out blue red that are no good for anything but the pot
the only way you will get blue reds is from putting a good white roos over a good pullet breeding brown hens
have been making them for the last 8 or so years