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5/3/12 at 8:46am
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Originally Posted by Suzierd View Post

Thanks everyone, my favorite is splash too. And I'm pretty sure I have a splash Roo and a white Roo. So I should get splash chicks with the splash Roo and blue hen right?

 

That will get you 50% blue, 50% splash. 

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post #17732 of 35376
5/3/12 at 8:47am
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Now here are a couple of fun chick pics, just for eye candy;-)
Hey, someone asked!

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Beautiful birds!
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post #17733 of 35376
5/3/12 at 8:56am
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So I have another pip this morning!  The other egg didn't make it yesterday-- no internal pip, so it must have died not too long ago, because I can tell it filled the egg.  I am giving it some more time before I crack into it and see what happened to it.  My luck and I won't get any more black chicks-- they'll all be either blue or splash.  Sigh.  sad.png   Which is FINE..  I just really wanted a black.

Funny how life works, I didn't really want any black chicks, first 12 chicks were Partridge, then the next 3 to hatch were all black then two chipmunk chicks that turned out black and last a Grey.
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5/3/12 at 8:58am
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Originally Posted by Suzierd View Post

Thanks everyone, my favorite is splash too. And I'm pretty sure I have a splash Roo and a white Roo. So I should get splash chicks with the splash Roo and blue hen right?

blue or splash paired with a splash roo will give you splash

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post #17735 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:29am
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye95 View Post

thumbsup.gif  Exactly!!  I have a hen that I do believe is a Black, but the judge listed her as a Blue.  She is really, really dark and is not an obvious dark Blue.  I was told by the breeder that sold her to me that she is Black and she really does look it.  So who knows!

 

Here she is!  Blue or Black??  I say Black... hu.gif  SO I agree with staying away from a blue and black pairing.

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 Is she the mother of your splash chicks? If so, she is blue. Beautiful girl!!

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post #17736 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:31am
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Thanks everyone, my favorite is splash too. And I'm pretty sure I have a splash Roo and a white Roo. So I should get splash chicks with the splash Roo and blue hen right?

 Here's the chart.

 

The way the Blue gene works in a breeding can be broken down as follows:
1) Blue x Blue: This will produce 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash.
2) Black x Blue: Produces 50% black and 50% blue.
3) Black x Splash: You'll get 100% blue.
4) Blue x Splash: Produces 50% blue and 50% splash.
5) Splash x Splash: This will give you 100% Splash.

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post #17737 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:39am
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 That's an awesome crest for four weeks!

 Thank you, I hatched her from some of Sandy Thompson's (Bat Cave Silkies) eggs.  I have always hatched really pretty birds out of her eggs!!

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Love my life in the beautiful Mountains of Western North Carolina! I have a very supportive husband and 2 beautiful daughters. I raise Black Copper Marans, Cuckoo Marans, I am just getting in to Faverolle's and Orpington's. I now have a Beautiful Buff Orpington named Dexter. He is 5 months old. I have Buff Chicks, BBS Chicks and Lemon Cuckoo chicks. I also have a incubator full of Orpington and...
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post #17738 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:51am
well our two silkies are growing up. they are now 3 months old. they have changed so much in the past 2 months.

this is Buffie.
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and this is Snowie.
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post #17739 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:52am
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well our two silkies are growing up. they are now 3 months old. they have changed so much in the past 2 months.
this is Buffie.
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and this is Snowie.
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Very pretty!

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Bantam Silver Laced and Columbian Cochins

 

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post #17740 of 35376
5/3/12 at 9:53am
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 A total of 5 birds?  that's okay, although once they get teenage raging hormones you might want to put the boys in a bachelor pad away from the girls until the mature a bit more and hormones slow down.

Does the friend who might eat the cockerel know what colour its meat will be?  Most people do not want to eat "bruise-coloured" meat.

The lady picking him up is the breeder I bought him from, she knows what color they are. That's what they do with there extra Roos. sad.png She said she has about 35 unwanted Roos right now.
I put him on craigslist for $10.00 to help him go to a home that won't eat him. The more I think about it the more I don't think I will be able to give him to her on Saturday. Which I had a bachelor pad. He does the best little dance I ever seen a rooster do, plus he likes to talk to me. I need more coops and runs! My DH doesnt think so.

Can you simply let him run the yard freely, eating all those nasty bugs that eat your plants?

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