Ash red carrying brown cocks

[marksam]

When a cock carries ash red cock and brown base colors, does the brown base color bleed through? Do you have any pictures of an ash red carrying brown cocks?

[AdamArcher]

As far as I know, yes, but I've never seen one in person. I might try to breed one this year to check.

[marksam]

Would you (1) pair a Brown cock to a ash red hen? Or (2) your Ash red Cock carrying blue to a Brown hen? I think the percent of success with pair (1) will be better than pair (2).

[AdamArcher]

I'd pair a brown hen to a homozygous ash red cock, that way all cocks are what we're after: ash red split for brown.