Whiting True Blues

[Birdsonghill]

My girls will be three years old in this coming May. so over two and a half years old. They had a brief slow down and mild molt due to the onset of shorter days and an early frost and me forgetting to start supplementing light. They now, have recovered and are still laying a decent rate of about 4 to 5 eggs per bird coming into Decembers cold days. Overall, I am pleased with these Whitings. They are easy on the feed and the mostly true pale blue eggs with an occasional olive colored egg , is popular with my egg customers. I will say my Welsummers did not miss a beat with the shorter light period or colder temps. All my Whitings lay a large egg since maturity. The Welsummers and the Black Minorcas both lay some extra large eggs and jumbos occasionally.

 

[Kung_pao]

Mine still are only laying medium eggs but I’m extremely happy with them. Not overly friendly but they come running for treats and aren’t as flighty as they were when young.

 

[Kung_pao]

I saw another post talking about barring in whiting true blues. Some of my birds came from Murray and some from a breeder. My rooster I kept has barring and is from a breeder with nice birds. These are old pictures from when he was 4-5 months old in their hoop coop.

 

[TexasBlues]

Good looking rooster!
Here’s my whiting true blue chicks. Can you guess what they’ll look like when grown?

 

[TexasBlues]

Here’s a better look at all 9 chicks

 

[Kung_pao]

I don’t know but those are adorable. Part of the fun with them is that you get such a variety.

 

[Kung_pao]

One of the birds from McMurray looks like your standard Easter egger mutt, I think they threw it in with my whitings. It lays an off white egg too, I’ll probably rehome it. It is actually pretty friendly and not as flighty.

 

[TexasBlues]

I don’t know but those are adorable. Part of the fun with them is that you get such a variety.

I like their variety so much I made another video of the chicks.

 

[FunClucks]

One of the birds from McMurray looks like your standard Easter egger mutt, I think they threw it in with my whitings. It lays an off white egg too, I’ll probably rehome it. It is actually pretty friendly and not as flighty.

There's no way to tell which are WTB and which are Easter Eggers by looks. They can look the same. You may just have a WTB that didn't have the correct egg genetics. Or it could be an EE. Either way, it should be culled from the WTB gene pool for not laying the correct color egg if you plan to breed them. Sounds like you've got that covered.

 

[Kung_pao]

There's no way to tell which are WTB and which are Easter Eggers by looks. They can look the same. You may just have a WTB that didn't have the correct egg genetics. Or it could be an EE. Either way, it should be culled from the WTB gene pool for not laying the correct color egg if you plan to breed them. Sounds like you've got that covered.