Deerhen Project

[E flowers]

Ok I'm trying to recreate the white pattern red wheaten on the calculator and for some reason I can't get back to it. What am I doing wrong? I typed in Rhode island red and wheaten maran getting this.

The offspring are just black pattern red duckwing.

 

[E flowers]

The offspring are just black pattern red duckwing.

Nevermind I figured out how I did it again! I did wheaten maran (BPG/Wh) roo x white pattern red columbian(E^wh/E^wh) which made a white pattern red incomplete columbian and bred back to the wheaten maran roo giving me a 1/16 chance to get the white pattern red wheaten.
Once I have a white pattern red wheaten pair F1 (most likely siblings). I breed them to each other and get my F2 with 9/32 chance. Then I breed those F2 siblings to get the WPR/Wh F3 with a 50-50 chance!

 

[E flowers]

Nevermind I figured out how I did it again! I did wheaten maran (BPG/Wh) roo x white pattern red columbian(E^wh/E^wh) which made a white pattern red incomplete columbian and bred back to the wheaten maran roo giving me a 1/16 chance to get the white pattern red wheaten.
Once I have a white pattern red wheaten pair F1 (most likely siblings). I breed them to each other and get my F2 with 9/32 chance. Then I breed those F2 siblings to get the WPR/Wh F3 with a 50-50 chance!

Is the wheaten maran rooster black pattern gold wheaten or black pattern red and does that matter?

 

[NatJ]

Is the wheaten maran rooster black pattern gold wheaten or black pattern red and does that matter?

Gold or red probably does not matter much, but he does need to be wheaten and not duckwing. The roosters look alike, at least until you add other genes that affect the pattern, but the hens look different.

 

[NatJ]

Would RIR x cubalaya x white leghorn work?

Probably yes.

I would probably cross White Leghorn hen with either RIR rooster or Cubalaya rooster, then cross daughters to the other of those roosters. That gets rid of all the sex-linked genes from the Leghorn (probably Silver and maybe barring), and should give you about 1 in 4 chicks showing white patterned red something, with variations in the "something." Another 1 in 4 chick should show black patterened red (something), with the other half of chicks being either black or white.

 

[Klutch]

Can't you throw some Isa Browns into the mix?

 

[E flowers]

Probably yes.

I would probably cross White Leghorn hen with either RIR rooster or Cubalaya rooster, then cross daughters to the other of those roosters. That gets rid of all the sex-linked genes from the Leghorn (probably Silver and maybe barring), and should give you about 1 in 4 chicks showing white patterned red something, with variations in the "something." Another 1 in 4 chick should show black patterened red (something), with the other half of chicks being either black or white.

So like RIR roo x WL hen. Then cross the offspring with a cubalaya roo. Then take the white pattern red "Something" F1 roos and hens and breed those to get F2 and so on?

 

[NatJ]

So like RIR roo x WL hen. Then cross the offspring with a cubalaya roo. Then take the white pattern red "Something" F1 roos and hens and breed those to get F2 and so on?

Yes, that's what I was thinking.