Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[ki4got]

So BLRW can be splash, and splash is synonymous with white? Or grayish, bluish white, anyway?

the blue gene when heterozygous (one copy) shows up as a fairly even blue shade which can vary from light to dark. splash is the homozygous form of blue (2 copies of the gene) and is a very pale silver to white with splashes of blue or black here and there on some of the feathers. (that's why it's called splash).

it is NOT related in any way to a pure white bird, which may carry either recessive or dominant white. that mutation has no place in blrw.

 

[ki4got]

ok here's a pic of my splash laced girl when she was moulting, that shows clearly what I mean about splashes of color... pointed out by the arrows...

a blue feather (even a light blue) will be uniform in shade (some darker blues have a much darker outline but that's a normal part of the dark blues). a splash will have OCCASIONAL feathers with darker streaks (any shade of blue or black).

 

[Our Roost]

What color wyandotte is this gal on the end of the bench?

 

[ki4got]

What color wyandotte is this gal on the end of the bench?

without having a higher resolution picture to look at in more detail, I would say blue. a splash is usually much paler silver to white...

 

[Our Roost]

malndobe, This gal on the end is as close to blue as I have seen but its not a RLBW. They just dont exist as yet.

 

[PeakyBeaky]

What color wyandotte is this gal on the end of the bench?

 

[malndobe]

malndobe, This gal on the end is as close to blue as I have seen but its not a RLBW. They just dont exist as yet.

The original poster can chime in but if I remember right these are fairly young birds who haven't developed their adult colors/lacing yet.

 

[carriebain]

Here is my little splash girl

 

[Scott H]

So then, who's on first, LOL.

 

[ki4got]

malndobe, This gal on the end is as close to blue as I have seen but its not a RLBW. They just dont exist as yet.

nope... she doesn't have great lacing, but is nowhere near what you're calling red laced blue... and you are right they don't exist. the mutations are not known, that would draw all the melanistic pigment (blue/black/splash or whatever other ground color is present) to the center of the feather, rather than pushing it to the outside, which is what we have now...

this is what a blue laced red feather would be... a red feather with a blue outline (lacing)



this is what a red laced blue would look like if it existed.