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Lacing will definitely get better but the coppery color (I think) will stay.

Were you using medicated feed the whole time? If not, might have been coccidiosis.

To get Lavender the chicks need to get it from both parents so the first generation will be solid black with maybe a hint of lacing. If you inbreed the black birds (a brother/sister mating) most will be black, some will be laced to some extent, some will be Lavender and a very few will be...

The base color is red...like a Rhode Island Red and Mahogany is a modifier that makes the red darker. With my roosters the mahogany is good on the shoulders but not as good on the hackles and saddle feathers. Now I'm not a show breeder and I'm not sure if the better mahogany comes from two...

I personally love the look of the "splash" birds. I don't show birds and I keep/raise what I like.

#8144 of 8169 18 days ago OKVet So Rob, if you have blue and splash hens, do you see any reason to keep a splash rooster around? Not really much use for a splash rooster although I like the way they look. You could put a splash too with some black laced hens to make BLRW to sell for pretty...

Actually the black laced don't have a copy of the blue gene but the splash have two. The blue gene lightens black to blue and the splash birds have a double dose. Every cell in a chicken has paired chromosomes. Those cells split to make haploid cells for both eggs and sperm. So, when a black...

As far as what I personally like to look at I like the splash hens as much as the blue laced. I like having some of both and right now with blue roosters, one black laced hen, two blue laced hens and something like 13 splash hens I get more than half Blue Laced chicks, almost as many splash...

I guess if I was a hard-core show person with my own line then I'd have to raise them up to look for potential show birds and then maybe I'd be stingy with my stock. I'd say my hobby has more to do with the hatchery end of it than anything else even though I absolutely enjoy having the adults.

Is that such a novel concept? I enjoy keeping chickens but I also enjoy hatching them out and selling the chicks. I only sell locally but there are enough people that want them for their back yard flocks to sell what I hatch. I don't have any interest in showing chickens or trying to raise...

My splash rooster was only temporary. I have two Blue Laced roosters that I use now but I'm thinking about getting a black Laced since most of my hens are splash. I personally love the splash hens and most people like to get a mix of blue laced and splash but a lot of the time people want to...

This was my splash rooster:

Do you think? I had a rooster like that and couldn't decide but more than half of my chicks were splash so I'm pretty sure he was just a dark splash. Anyone else want to weigh in?

Oh yeah...splash.

He's blue but rather light, she appears to be a dark splash. A better picture of her would be helpful but I think that's correct. The blue gene is a "leaky gene" so the blue can range from dark to rather light and splash can be relatively dark or almost white. Your chicks out of this pair...

I've used it but I'm not convinced that it does all that much for external parasites and I've seen it suggested that it doesn't work when wet and doesn't work for internal parasites. I'm not sure if that's accurate but I've dusted birds with it and certainly didn't see much difference...at...

Comfortis is REALLY expensive in the U.S. I don't know if there is a cheaper genetic but it sure is pricy. Frontline has shown less and less effectiveness on dogs and cats but on birds I can attest that it is almost like a miracle.

I don't even think it does much for external parasites. I was pretty excited about it because the generic is cheap (about $18), is about enough for 500 doses and is easy to apply. I had mites on my birds and gave them all a few drops of ivermectin and a few days later I really couldn't see...

My plan was to use a commercial wormer every 6 months but to give fermented feed mixed with a heavy dose of cayenne pepper every week. For the commercial wormer I switched to ivermectin pour-on (off label...designed for cattle) because it was supposed to work for external parasites as well. I...

Some people have lines where the cockerels feather out more slowly but my birds are a mix of lines and that doesn't mean anything with my birds. I don't see any red in that blue chick's comb so I don't see any indication that it's a cockerel. There isn't a lot of color on that splash chick but...