Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[emrldgrn1]

I think I can make Roanoke and back home again in a day. I would be very great full for any and all chicks and or hatching eggs you could spare for us. I was hoping I could find chicks about the same age we lost and then hope she didn't notice the slight difference in color but it looks like I'm going to have to tell her that they were lost in the storm. I may bring her with me on the trip to get them depending on how she is feeling. She will talk your ears right off your head about your chicks but I love to see her so happy. Thank you and please let me know when you might be ready for our visit.

 

[heirloomorps]

emrldgrn1

I am VERY Sorry for your loses.  If I could help you I would but you are just to far and I don't have anything but chicks and not enough.  I hope someone can help you.  Check with hardinpoultry and see if she can help.  Ki4got has offered to help too in VA.

I hope you didn't have any major damage. Again I am so sorry you are going through that and you can find replacements for your mother so she can have a good recovery.  

 

So sorry for your loss. I wish I could help but I don't even have any chicks right now. The power outage got them all.

 

[Flowerbh]

So sorry for your loss. I wish I could help but I don't even have any chicks right now.

The power outage got them all.

Hey Holly! OMG, your silkie in your avatar is soooo white! Mine use to look like that...she is now buff colored from bathing in all our North GA clay! I have given up trying to keep her clean as all my chickens free range all day. At least she is sitting tight to the 6 eggs we got from a neighbor earlier this week! 1st time with a broody! Sorry to hear about your loss! I am so glad I have a whole house generator in case something like that happens! Let me know when you will have more BLRW eggs for sale again. I will PM you a photo of my ssssllllllloooooowwwww feathering chick. He is now 6 weeks old and still almost naked. Very strange boy.

 

[beckyb1971]

Im glad you found someone to help you out. I didn't hear anything back from you I put everything I had in the incubator around lunch today

 

[heirloomorps]

Hey Holly!  OMG, your silkie in your avatar is soooo white!  Mine use to look like that...she is now buff colored from bathing in all our North GA clay!  I have given up trying to keep her clean as all my chickens free range all day.  At least she is sitting tight to the 6 eggs we got from a neighbor earlier this week!  1st time with a broody!  Sorry to hear about your loss!  I am so glad I have a whole house generator in case something like that happens!  Let me know when you will have more BLRW eggs for sale again.  I will PM you a photo of my ssssllllllloooooowwwww feathering chick.  He is now 6 weeks old and still almost naked.  Very strange boy.

I have no clue how she keeps so clean but she is SPOTLESS all the time even on our clay soil. It makes showing her a whole lot easier. I think we are booked for BLRW eggs for the next two weeks and can do the week after so around the second week of May.

 

[ki4got]

re: slow feathering vs fast feathering, IMO, i'd rather have patterned birds with the slow feathering, because the definition between color changes is more dramatic. the mechanism that changes over from one color to another during feather growth isn't instantaneous, so a faster growing feather, the lines tend to blur a bit more... that's essentially the difference between cuckoo and barred birds. it's the same mutation, but cuckoos feather in faster than typical barred varieties.

 

[DMRippy]

re: slow feathering vs fast feathering, IMO, i'd rather have patterned birds with the slow feathering, because the definition between color changes is more dramatic. the mechanism that changes over from one color to another during feather growth isn't instantaneous, so a faster growing feather, the lines tend to blur a bit more... that's essentially the difference between cuckoo and barred birds. it's the same mutation, but cuckoos feather in faster than typical barred varieties.

I know my SLW feather in really slow... my BLRW don't seem to be naked like the SLW but the pattern is slower than other breeds. I might have to start breed for that in the BLRW.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

She is still pretty pale..you have a way to go. Look at your laying hens and that color. When she starts to get that color she is getting ready..your rooster will start to breed her a week or two before she starts to lay. He will start to pay attention to her to give you a heads up. Unless you have a young cockerel..they will breed a shoe if it stays in the same place long enough. The best way to judge is color with out catching them. Jenn..you need to examine your birds with hands on. No matter if you are checking for this or other things. Nothing can tell you more about your birds than picking them up. With feathers, it is difficult to see weight gain or loss. Hard to judge a straight keel bone without an exam. I am sure her keel is fine but in one picture she looks like she has split breast. I like your pretty pullet. Pluck them off the roost after they go to sleep if she is hard to examine. Place your hand at her vent area and examine the bones width. If you examine a males the bones are close together. if you examine an older hens they are farther apart. A POL is closer than a hens but farther apart than a juvie pullet.
>.............................................< old hen
>......................< rooster+juvie pullet
>..................................< POL

***Delisha- this is very helpful , Thank you for the diagram.... every little bit helps when just starting.

 

[CibolaChooks]

hey everyone here's my Blue Colombian Red Wyandotte. There is some nice mahogany red coming in the wings don't you think.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Steen, I understand what your asking. Last year I had some chicks that had that same coloring. As they grew some got lighter but still had that dark blue edging on their feathers on the chest lacing. I cull my flock by type first. I kept one that I was unsure if he was a dark splash (because EVERYONE said he was) but I had my doubts. He was test bred to solid black hens, I hatched 6 eggs to see if what color the chicks would be. If he was a splash ALL of the chicks should of been blue, BUT they were not. He sire two solid black chicks. As I studied up on the blue dilution gene I learned a lot in the book I ordered from England. He is a light blue. He has that same dark blue edging on his chest lacing. I have bred him to BLR pullets and he has sired about 8 black lace, 25 blues, and 3 splash.

heres the one Texasmja