Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[DMRippy]

What would i get crossing a blue Roo to a white leghorn? I have been making stuff with feathers and want different colored feathers. So a couple mix breed butcher chickens would produce a ton of usable feathers!

white chickens. white leghorn are dominate white.

 

[delisha]

About how much would you say a 3 month old chicken eats in a day?

hmm..if it is a Silkie it eats less than an English Orpington, no matter what the age.

Seriously that is hard to answer. Each bird has different needs even in the same breed. They have different needs daily for young birds and some days eat more than others.
I have about 12.... 3 month old chicks of the same breed and they are all different sizes and eat different amounts of feed. They are fed one pound of feed three times a day plus meat, free range and vegetables. So if you divide that by 12 it is an average of 4 oz of feed plus the grazing. If they are caged birds they would need more.

Young birds under 20 weeks should have feed and water available at all times. If it is not feed it should be greens.

 

[delisha]

Quote: I have let my leghorns hatch out their eggs, and they were bred to my blue orp and had blue, black and white chicks.

So I was pretty lucky.

 

[DMRippy]

What would i get crossing a blue Roo to a white leghorn? I have been making stuff with feathers and want different colored feathers. So a couple mix breed butcher chickens would produce a ton of usable feathers!

white chickens. white leghorn are dominate white.

I have let my leghorns hatch out their eggs, and they were bred to my blue orp and had blue, black and white chicks. So I was pretty lucky.

she only had one copy of dominate white. she has leakage. 2 copies of dom white is a pure white bird. so far all my white leghorn have had 2 copies so they pass it off to 100% of the chicks. all my super blue egg layers are a white leghorn cross and 100% of the chicks are white and I have hatched hundreds. I have some white leghorn exchequer crosses. they are all white too BUT about half of their chicks are white and the other half are colors.

 

[vladsko]

I am sure you can see the difference

The feathers on all three of my blrw are getting a little lighter. They're starting to look blue.

 

[delisha]

Quote: I have let my leghorns hatch out their eggs, and they were bred to my blue orp and had blue, black and white chicks.

So I was pretty lucky.



she only had one copy of dominate white. she has leakage. 2 copies of dom white is a pure white bird.

so far all my white leghorn have had 2 copies so they pass it off to 100% of the chicks. all my super blue egg layers are a white leghorn cross and 100% of the chicks are white and I have hatched hundreds. I have some white leghorn exchequer crosses. they are all white too BUT about half of their chicks are white and the other half are colors.
my leg horns are mutts...nothing worth showing. One does have some leakage now that she is old as dirt. She never did when she was younger. I thought it was her *gray* showing.

 

[delisha]

Quote: Your male is blue....>

 

[sol2go]

all my super blue egg layers are a white leghorn cross and 100% of the chicks are white and I have hatched hundreds.

Do your "super blue egg layers" have one or two copies of the blue eggshell gene (ie are they bred back and forth?)
Are they "super" because of their laying stats or the color of the blue eggshell?

 

[Mrs Hutcherson]

I was just trying to do some chicken math lol. I have 5 blrw and 4 br, its hard to tell how much they eat, they are like piranhas lol, put food down and they act like theyve never eaten before lol. I started fermenting their feed and they love it! They graze and get meats and eggs and veggies from the garden. They are growing like weeds, just making sure they eat enouugh, there is.always a bit left in the bowls at the end of the day, so I figure its enough.

 

[DMRippy]

 all my super blue egg layers are a white leghorn cross and 100% of the chicks are white and I have hatched hundreds. 

Do your "super blue egg layers" have one or two copies of the blue eggshell gene (ie are they bred back and forth?)
Are they "super" because of their laying stats or the color of the blue eggshell?

SBEL are a cross so they only have one set.of genes from each parent. I don't breed the SBEL back and forth......just the one cross. they are super blue egg layers because they get the egg laying abilities of the white leghorn. they lots of big blue eggs.....