Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

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delisha said:
 If you breed birds that are not standard you will be working for years and constantly trying to correct defects. Birds have an SOP for a reason. It is not someone fancy thought process. Birds are constructed a certain way for a reason and that is health reasons.  This breed of chicken needs a deep front for egg production, organs and intestines and it is a meat bird. It is not a leg horn. If you want a leg horn body and want to color it a pretty blue with some orange on it, buy good leghorns and work on color. You work first with the construction of the chicken. Color is last and has nothing to do with the health of the chicken and you can't harm the health of a chicken working on color. You can and it happens all the time harm the health of a chicken by trying to shove Wyandotte organs in a leghorn body. You get birds with poor laying and production, infections and internal problems and no meat on breast bones. Hips out of sockets and easy injured birds.

This is a new breed. You are going to have more bad birds than good birds. It has nothing to do with breeders. You are the stewart of the breed. Learn all you can and only reproduce from the best. If you don't hatch/purchase breeder quality..don't breed them. Hatch more and keep looking for better quality. I had over 100 BLRW chicks this year and I kept 3. If and when you buy eggs or chicks the chance you gets a top quality bird out of a few eggs or chicks is difficult at best. If you really want a good bird for producing, buy adults that you can see.  Next year I might have to hatch 200 to get a few good birds. This breed is new and needs work. You just keep working until one day you look at a chick and you simply know..that is what you are looking for. Eventually if you keep breeding good birds..you will need to only breed 50 birds a year to find good stock.
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Thanks for this good information. I'm very interested in breeding these beautiful birds, but I want to do it right.
 
Hi everyone, this is the youngest of the 2 BLRW that i have at the moment, this chick is around 4-5 weeks was sell it to my as a straight run, grab it hoping for a hen, what you guys think? Pullet or ROO?
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That is a pretty bird. I like that the eyes are not black - personal preference. The blues blend in to make for a very colorful bird overall how is the production value of this BLRW breed? Pretty good egger? What weights do they get up to for you? Temperament - nice/friendly? easy to pick up?
 
not sure if the question is for me but, i only have 2 chicks of this breed, and unfortunally they look to be roosters and is my first time raisin chickens so i guess im not the right person to answer some of those questions like the weight and egg production even though as far as i know theyre prety good laying eggs but sometimes can start laying later than the average chickens as far astemperament i guess because this two chicks that i own are roos theyre very cautios, theyre frendly but looks like they dont like to be grabbed by humans no experience with the hens though, i personally have a few dominiques and theyre super friendly they love to hang around people
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That is a pretty bird.  I like that the eyes are not black - personal preference.  The blues blend in to make for a very colorful bird overall how is the production value of this BLRW breed?  Pretty good egger?  What weights do they get up to for you?  Temperament - nice/friendly? easy to pick up?
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