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I understand blue breeding but I thought there was a DIFFERENT BLUE at work here in the UofA Blue's. I thought it breed true..... Blue x Blue only gave BLUE. I know I read that back when this thread started..... maybe they were misinformed about the blue thing.
Whiting Farms DOES NOT have these. He introduced something into his that causes the chipmunk effect in chicks. These hatch as the normal Blue/Black/Splash.
So happy these are being reproduced. Our flock is still small after some losses this winter. We are going to test some breeding by breeding back to a commercial White Leghorn. Jahdan (12) got some UofA eggs this last December and hatched a few commercial White Leghorns. This should add some new blood yet preserve the egg color.
When we said it breeds true.... it breeds true as the B/B/S genetics go and breeds a true egg color.
Since these are not the same as what Whiting has now made available, this is a distinct and separate breed to anything else. Thus why the best name for these may well be what we have been referring them to as.... Arkansas Blue.
P.S. I am sort of back. Its been a long year or so. My health is better and life events has been much better!
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