Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[mzstre]

These are some of my upcoming breeders. They were a late hatch last year. I made the mistake of selling all the chicks from early hatches and keeping the ones later in the year. What a mistake! I just got my first egg this week.

The cockerel below is the same one in my avatar.

The bright sun washed out the colors in these a bit, but I still love the pics.

 

[Clucksworth]

These are some of my upcoming breeders. They were a late hatch last year. I made the mistake of selling all the chicks from early hatches and keeping the ones later in the year. What a mistake! I just got my first egg this week.

The cockerel below is the same one in my avatar.

The bright sun washed out the colors in these a bit, but I still love the pics.

Very pretty, great type and colour. Who's line are they from?

 

[mzstre]

Very pretty, great type and colour. Who's line are they from?

Thank you! My original breeders came from Jerry Foley in 2012. These birds represent several generations of my own hatching and culling.

 

[Clucksworth]

Thank you! My original breeders came from Jerry Foley in 2012. These birds represent several generations of my own hatching and culling.

Well it looks like you've done the line well! Keep up the good work, I love your boy - he's gorgeous.

 

[Clucksworth]

Thank you! My original breeders came from Jerry Foley in 2012. These birds represent several generations of my own hatching and culling.

Also have you bred back to a black laced wyandotte yet?

 

[Bill1st]

Here they are 10 days old. I am not seeing a lot of blue lacing in the feathers yet. A little concerning…

 

[Clucksworth]

Here they are 10 days old. I am not seeing a lot of blue lacing in the feathers yet. A little concerning…

Hi Bill1st, don't be concerned about your chicks. They all look perfect.

Blue laced Wyandottes won't start to show any blue lacing until they are a couple of months old, until then they will look brown and in a couple of weeks time you may see a bit a blue bleeding in the feathers. They will become laced a couple of months later, when this first blue lacing comes through it will look quite scrappy/ badly laced but don't worry Blue Laced Wyandottes take a long time to mature and there lacing may take 4 or 5 moults until it's at it's best.

Hope this has helped!

 

[mzstre]

Also have you bred back to a black laced wyandotte yet?

I haven't in the past, but I do have a black laced cock in one of my breeding pens now. I'm a bit nervous about the results. I haven't kept a single black laced hen because I've noticed a tendency for them to have double lacing on their back feathers. The black cock has great lacing, but I'm worried that using the him might cause problems with his blue laced progeny. Maybe someone with a good handle on genetics can offer some insight?

I will be watching chicks from that pen closely and won't be selling any. I hope I won't have to cull them all.

 

[Clucksworth]

I haven't in the past, but I do have a black laced cock in one of my breeding pens now. I'm a bit nervous about the results. I haven't kept a single black laced hen because I've noticed a tendency for them to have double lacing on their back feathers. The black cock has great lacing, but I'm worried that using the him might cause problems with his blue laced progeny. Maybe someone with a good handle on genetics can offer some insight?

I will be watching chicks from that pen closely and won't be selling any. I hope I won't have to cull them all.

I completely understand where you're coming from with the black laced double lacing issues, however if we continue to breed blue to blue the colour will start to fade/deteriorate. It is recommended amongst other blue laced breeders to breed back to a good black laced cockerel every other year to maintain a good solid deep blue colour. If you are concerned with the outcome of this cross I would recommend breeding the black laced boy to just a couple your lightest best laced blue laced hens. This will avoid the risk of hatching hens with a blue too dark and will also maintain good lacing.

If you don't want to risk the occurrence of your blue hens's lacing deteriorated with this cross, you can always keep a black laced hen back from your next blue x blue cross that doesn't have double lacing on the back and use her to breed back to a blue, this way you have more control over lacing of the chicks because you know your black hen doesn't carry any dominant doubled laced alleles.

Here area couple of the black laced hens I have kept over the years for this purpose:

 

[Bill1st]

those girls look awesome! I hope my little chicks turn out that beautiful.