Blue black splash

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So I was looking over the BBS chart last night trying to decide on the amount of each color I wanted that would give me the most colors in offspring. When looking at splash x splash there are 2 offspring colors. One is splash and the other is splash but different, what is it? Anyone have pics of birds to show the difference? TIA.
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IDK what exactly they're trying to say with the chart.
Blue is just a dilute of black and splash is two copies of the dilute.
Since its a dilute not all birds will be diluted in the same amount. Blues can range from a lighter shade of blue to a darker almost black shade.
Splash gives a double dose of dilute so it can vary even more. There's a lot of differences in splash from almost white to light bluish with any amount of patches or specks.
I assume the chart is somehow trying to show the variations in the splash pattern.
 
IDK what exactly they're trying to say with the chart.
Blue is just a dilute of black and splash is two copies of the dilute.
Since its a dilute not all birds will be diluted in the same amount. Blues can range from a lighter shade of blue to a darker almost black shade.
Splash gives a double dose of dilute so it can vary even more. There's a lot of differences in splash from almost white to light bluish with any amount of patches or specks.
I assume the chart is somehow trying to show the variations in the splash pattern.
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The two different splashes don’t mean anything. They’re the same thing.
They should have removed that to avoid confusion a long time ago IMO.
 
It was confusing me. I thought maybe it was a lighter vs darker splash or something along those lines.
I did have some different splash birds happen a couple years ago. Some were traditional splash birds and 2 others were white with black splatters all over them. Same parents which were 2 traditional colored splash birds.
 
Hi all, I didn't want to start a new thread for my question because it's about breeding splash and getting an unexpected color. So I've been breeding Olive Eggers and Easter Eggers for about 3 years working with blue and black. I got my first splash last year, I took those splash hens and bred them to my blue Ameraucana rooster. I got more splash but I also got white, pure white not even black specks at all!?

These are the two that came out white
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This is another rooster from an earlier batch but I'm thinking this ones mom was blue.. but not sure
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So is it normal to get white? And if I breed the white rooster what could I possibly get? Is he still considered splash?
My hens are different degrees of blue from very light to dark charcoal and then I have black.
I sold the splash hens last fall to a friend.
 
Sounds like some of your birds were carrying recessive white. It takes two copies to show. One copy goes sight unseen and can be passed on for many generations.
Eventually you bred birds that both carried it and the white birds got a gene from each parent.
 
That's interesting... so will they produce more white offspring?

I also forgot I have one golden cuckoo maran in my flock, would she have weird white gene?
 
Whichever pairing produced the white ones should produce more.
If you breed the two white ones together they should produce all white offspring.
 

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