I don’t know if anyone still have any of the University of Arkansas Blue’s around but they come in blue/splash and lay blue eggs. When they first became available about 15 years ago there were even some of them that would come out with single combs. I was guessing that they were the foundation of the Whiting True Blues since the University of Arkansas is where Dr. Tom Whiting did one of his post graduate degrees in Poultry Management and he got his True Blue start from a former University Colleague who had worked with creating the blue egg flock for about a decade but didn’t have time to do much with them so he shipped them all to Whiting.
Wow, so he just stuck his name on the True Blues?
I guess it fits with what he did to the Genetic Hackle fowl, buying up the major lines and accepting credit as the creator of Flytie birds despite the hard work of their developers since the 50's.
It doesn't seem right to me to claim other people's work as your own, especially then to go on to say things like the True Blues were created "to show what he can do".