BLR Wyandotte chick color

[Katy]

Mrs. Turbo :

I think you got your eggs from us and if you like splash BLRW you got lucky. Here is a picture of one of our light chicks feathering out and sometimes the flash in the camera or the brooder light bleaches a little color.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21841_eli_bd2009_045.jpg

here is one that hatched yesterday

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21841_eli_bd2009_062.jpg

and this is what they should look like (after culling for the best ones)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21841_tro.jpg

and just to mess with Katy, here is a new SLW chick

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21841_eli_bd2009_064.jpg

But you also have to remember that we raise hundreds of chicks a year and cull down to the best ones, so the chicks you hatch might or might not look as good as the ones on our website so you have to turn around and raise some of your own chicks and keep the best ones. It does take time, or you can buy some adults and start that way. Also when improving the BLRW type and color there are some crosses that go about 5 generations back that pop up sometimes. For more information on the colors and types of BLRW visit the forum in bluelacedred.com

Ahhhhhh SLW chicks.....my dream chickens!!

Thanks Mrs. Turbo!!

That's funny.....the picture I posted is some of my chicks from you guys (the Turbos). Well, I know she got the eggs from a good breeder than.

I've hatched some lighter chicks but just never any that look as light as the pictures of hers. I do know pictures don't always do justice to the real thing. I agree about the culling part to get down to your best stock. I've finally got my flock to the point I'm getting a lot pickier on who I'm keeping and who I'm not. Back when I first started hatching my BLRWs I was just trying to get some numbers built up so I'd have some to choose from.​

 

[Solsken Farm]

Oh this thread is making me excited! I have some BLRWs coming next week and can't wait!

I got some Gold and Silver laced hatchery chicks as a surprise in one of my assortments. They are the CUTEST chicks!

Beautiful pics Mrs. T.

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

Well, the different colors are also determined by the color of the parent rooster and hens. Splash on splash you get splash so if I had a splash rooster in there with some splash hens and some blue hens I would get some splash and some blue, we don't get a lot of blacks and we rarely breed the blacks, only when we want to darken the blue color. We change roosters around sometimes to get different chicks. Sometimes they are all dark and sometimes we get 50/50.
Just depends on what breeding we have going on when I collect your eggs.


eta: We sell eggs and chicks from the same pen we hatch our own chicks from........

 

[MrsChickendad]

Mrs T, you are GOOD! Recognized your own babies! I am tickled with these 4 babies, just wish more of them had made it. They are very consistent in color and body type. What do you figure the darker one is? (see original post for pix).

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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the dark chick will be blue.......here is some of our young blues and a splash

I really wish I could ship 12 eggs and everyone would get 12 chicks, unfortunately it doesn't always work out that way. I really feel bad for people that only get a few to hatch, I really do because the eggs are not cheap. We sell chicks only now and I like being able to guarantee a certain number of chicks and then everyone is happy.

 

[MrsChickendad]

I knew I was taking a chance on shipped eggs, but it was still less expensive than driving down to pick them up! I think the p.o. must have routed them thru the war zone, so I am surprised that any hatched at all. I've probably got a better chance with a few good chicks from good stock than I would with a hundred from next door. Thanks for your input!

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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I hear you, we also buy eggs because they are cheaper.....lol I think you will end up with some really nice chickens....good luck with them. Next trip up your way I will hand deliver you some eggs, we go to the detroit area about once every 3 years.....

 

[MrsChickendad]

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I moved them into a bigger brooder today and the light BLRW chicks are growing wing feathers way faster than the dark one. Well, we'll see in a few weeks. I can't get much work done because I watch too much "chick television". . .