so mix that with a white splash - pretty.
. The 6 blues and 1 black chick in the picture are from the project girls X U of A blues.
Some more pics of my U of A cockerel crossed to my own project hens(Ameraucana/Leghorn like the U of A line).
In this picture the white and red chicks are not part of the project cross, they are for a future olive egger project
Here is a closer look at the very dark blue? chick from the above photo. Still think it's blue? it is crazy how much darker she is from the rest, looks like it will be a girl too. She hatched from my favorite, most docile hen who was also a great egg layer in her prime. The middle chick looks like an obvious rooster to me, the two chicks next to him look like girls comparatively.
I would disagree. The original breeder was a poultry expert who spent I imagine a lot of time selecting his stock for specific characteristics, and breeding for generations to achieve certain goals. There is nothing wrong with breeding blue egg laying crosses, but it would be many generations and going through that selection process for both looks and production again before you got back to the basic breed.Very pretty - it seems they have kept all the coloring of what AB have - but just some added depth in the darkness/splash - I like them a lot. Considering all the background - since it was the same incross of "new genes" I would say you could still call these AB if you then kept them back in only AB
I was toying with bringing in one Aracouna (sp?) with VERY blue eggs as a one time input to up the blue in my eggs - which to me are way too light to really call blue - but only tinted ...
What do you think of that ? Too sacreligious? I am wanting to stay in the consensus of the larger AB group with this - since we have so few.
