Blue and Splash - an Experiment

[fowlafoot]

These are a few generations worth of results from some Blue Breasted Red and Splash crossings

First Cross

Miner Blue American Game Rooster

Splash OEG hens

First Generation

Satan

Fire Dancer

and Ghost

Second Generation

Fire Dancer crossed with another Miner Blue rooster

Ghost crossed with Satan - there are 5 chicks one silver, one black with a white belly(pictured), one black with no white, one yellow with a stripe (pictured) and one chocolate colored one (pictured).

 

[okiehen]

very nice birds, I'm going to play around with the blue and splash and see what I get.
Should be fun, my blues are Blue Andalusians.
I have 3 young roos 1 black 1 blue 1 splash.
I'm going to keep my pullets so I'll have pure breeds.
And I'm going to play with the cross breeds to see if I can get blue.
I have some splash hens I'm going to put with the black roo.
And black hens that are going on the splash roo.
I can't wait to see how it comes out.

 

[fowlafoot]

Good luck with it, it's like Christmas when the chicks hatch... can't wait to see what you'll get. I think that this last hatch finally gave me some blacks to work with

 

[Blisschick]

Very nice! I love blue breasted red

What you're calling splash seems to me to be mottled black & white. I've had splash birds for a few years now, and not even the whitest looking ones come out with black feathers, but kind of medium blue to dark blue ones. Splash will be pale blue to nearly white, with tiny streaks of darker color throughout the feathers, along with blotches of blue and black.