ATTN: BLR Wyandotte breeders

[Picco]

It depends on what you are breeding for. if its for personal use or just for pets its not a big deal, but I wouldn't breed them to sell unless someone is looking for just a pet or a layer. they are still beautiful though!

 

[bluehenlover]

**sniff, sniff**

Alright, how about if I replace the hen and use my roo?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Dun laced blues would be pretty, but both dun and blue are dilutes of black. When you breed 2 duns together you get 50% dun, 25% black, and 25% khaki. We had a couple dun laced red cockerels last year, our dun roo got into the hen pen that had the BLR bantams and one of those hens escaped and went broody. When she hatched out chicks, there were 2 poor dun laced red cockerels and 1 khaki hen that if bred back to a BLR or even a SL could produce dun laced reds. Dun is dominant over blue most of the time, when we crossed duns and blues, we got 1 blue chick and about 20 dun/khaki chicks. We only have dun wyandottes in bantams, I wanted to try to get large fowl dun wyandottes but we dont have enough room and we are working on too many colors right now already, it would be easy tho, all you would have to do is cross a dun bantam to a LF black, then keep duns and keep crossing to LF blacks until you have the right size. Check out our website to see what our duns look like, we will have hatching eggs soon, just send an email to my mom telling her you would like some, and she will tell you what dates we can send. Her email is on the website. The website is http://www.infinityheartfarm.com/

 

[bluehenlover]

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Does your mom have standard duns? Im really not set up for the little ones- I wouldnt have a coop for them. I would definately be interested in standards.

 

[tx zookeeper]

Question...

Someone said on BYC somewhere that breeding a single comb roo improves fertility on the BLRWs ...

Is that true?

I have read other places that single comb wyandottes should not be used for breeding programs......

Any advise as to ways to improve fertility? anyone want to post pics of a trimmed tush?... just so i know how extreme to get...

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

That is only if you have low fertility. In wyandottes, the rose comb gene, if it hasnt had any new blood introduced, can hurt the fertility. You dont really have to worry about that here in the U.S. because there have been so many lines of wyandottes poping up with single combs so we dont really have to worry about it. In show lines, you might worry about it, like in our LF silver laced we had a low fertility problem and never got any single combed chicks out of the line, but when we sold them to another breeder that combined ours with theirs, the fertility was great because of almost hybrid vigor. Neither lines had had any new blood introduced in ages, so by breeding to fresh blood it gave the line a 'fresh start', the pullets from the combined lines were great layers and the new owner doesnt have that many fertility problems at all. So to summarize, dont worry about crossing in a single combed bird unless your fertility is horrible and you havent tried a new line of the same variety.