nothing predictable... you'd get blues and blacks most likely, maybe some with red or brown leakage, possibly some sort of patterning on the wings, but nothing reliably predictable. you'd get green eggers with wonky combs most likely. (rose x pea = walnut-ish)
I just looked at my two 1 week old BLRW chicks. I am predicting 1 male and 1 female. The one I think is a male constantly stands "tall". He also has a much wider and bigger comb. The one I think is a female has a really tiny thin comb and is always standing at a slightly couched, forward leaning stance. Their wings are also growing in differently. On my last hatch (not all Wyandotte) I correctly predicted 6 of the 7 chicks by the end of the first week based on stance, feather length, combs and leg thickness.Ill answer your question and ignore the statements lmao..Big pet peeve of mine to answer people with the info there asking for.
everything else can come after.
Don't worry vent sexing can be really hard and not that reliable if you haven't had a whole lot of practice. and even then its hard to be accurate is what the pros have told me. just keep your fingers crossed.
Like Ki4got said even at 8-10 wks old it still can be tricky. best to wait for them to grow up to be certain. most people wait till there much older to attempt a guess. When people ask the male or female question and post pics everyone will look for male type feathers coming in and how big and red the combs are getting per the birds young age. at 4 to 6 weeks old is about the earliest you can see roos combs getting noticeably red and bigger than the pullets on the BLRW and that's pretty much all you can do on sexing baby BLRW.
no. blue is an incompletely dominant gene, lavender is a recessive gene. two totally different things.
that i'd say is probably likely. beard/muff is dominant and seems to pass along pretty readily...Thanks - I didn't think so, just throwing it out there. I'm not trying to breed anything specific, just curious. Obviously I don't know much about breedingSo, regardless of whether the Roo is a Blue, Black or Splash BLRW, I can expect some sort of Blue or Black mutt most likely? Would it inherit the beard or tufts from the Lav mom?
I have not read up on the other posts so don't know what the other posts say yet but I got 10 last year and I love them I only kept two hens but wish I kept more. The roosters are beautiful but a little loud! They were early crowers 2 DAYS OLD I swear! I got 3 roos and 7 hens. I was a tad disapointed because I got mostly splash but that is more luck of the draw. I have to say they are two of my best layers in my flock, plus one of the ones I kept is a broody. I would have kept a third but she was taken by something! They probably are not SQ but they are awesome to me. I say stick with it, just get ready for eggs they lay 6 eggs a week and lay well into dec.we did not supplement their light. I did get a couple that were really light.
