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Bummer you didn't get a splash. I think they are quite pretty and hope to get one in the future. Let us know what % of black to blue you end up with when the coloring is clear. Always curious how the percentages play out in real life. Also curious how the light blue vs. dark blue shows up in the offspring.I have a blue, a black, and a buff cross and the blue and the black lay bigger and more often then my buff. It could be because she's a cross.
About the chicks I have hatched I have a dark blue rooster and I cross him with a light blue hen and a black hen. So I should get 50% blue and 25% each of black and splash from the blue hen and 50% blue and 50% black from the black hen. So far we haven't seen any splash babies and that is out of 24 chicks.
Sorry it has taken me a long time to get back here. We have had a death in the family and some crazy days. My girls did really well. The splash orpington hen got 1st place and Reserve Best in Show Hen. Our big, blue orpington cockrel got 2nd. He is getting bigger and is looking great. They are a beautiful bunch. We had to sell the blue hen we got with this pair because she had yellow on the bottom of her feet. That is the incorrect color for a blue hen. She would have passed it on to her offspring and we definitely don't want that. The black orpington pullet that I hatched out is gorgeous too. We only have the trio so I am excited to hatch out some biddies this fall and see if the fertility rate is good and what the babies look like. We have 1 splash pullet, 1 black pullet, and the 1 blue cockrel.How did the show go? Any good pix to share?
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Im in love with my splash roo. He's handsome, Big, perfect shape, face, fluffiness, temperament, etc. but he has a few brown "splashes" and some yellow, which think the yellow is mostly from the sun and dirt. I hear that brown is a "no no" when breeding. I just got some exhibition quality black orp hens. Will his "flawed" color be bred out easily? If I get a blue hen and cross him with her, will the splash chicks have brown? Is it a bad idea?