Ok thanks! I hope to add more photos soon! but they move soooo fast. How flighty are yours? I plan on moving mine to a coop and run with 6 foot fences and I'm hoping if I trim their wings they will stay in. My leghorns are staying in...
I have 25 Jaerhons out in the garage all from Ideal poultry and I haven't lost any. They are going on 5 weeks old at least. I also purchased from Ideal 10 pullets and 3 roosters in January all the roosters died and I have 8 hens left....
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if you look at the gene combo above the wide lace image, it's Pg/pg+. which means if you breed 2 wide laced birds together, you'll get some good lacing (Pg/Pg like the bottom right)...
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It is. I hope that's a good thing!
yup looks like I was wrong!! (wouldn't be the first or last time) :) It seems nicer then I thought :)
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the mutations involved in blrw are blue (and black/splash happen too), mahogany, and lacing (made up of the pattern, melanizing and Columbian genes.)
it's...
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Update photo on my lil BLRW! Well, one of them anyway-mama won't let me near the other . Now four weeks old...
Is this fairly appropriate color and lacing for this age?...
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x2! #5 might turn out to be a darker Splash. I just got done raising up about 100 chicks and I LOVE this breed so many variations in the Blue-black-splash.
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Would this be a blue undercoat coming in? Still don't see any "laced" feathers?
That is most likely a BLRW it is going to have poor to no lacing. I have hatched out 2...