Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[greenbeetle]

My chicks from Chickenhill ship out on Monday, can hardly wait to get them.

 

[Soltaria]

My babies are getting bigger!
Is their color good? Is the red dark enough? Sorry, I know these aren't the best pictures.

 

[Soltaria]

Here are some better pictures. The one on the right in this first one looks too gold to me. How are the rest?

 

[mollybuck]

Here are some better pictures. The one on the right in this first one looks too gold to me. How are the rest?

I think his color might darken up. Some of the feathers are darker.

 

[Alaskan]

I have been looking through pictures on this thread, and most of the chicks have stripes. Mine have the very faintest, almost completely invisible stripes.

What does that mean color wise? Very dark chicks with no stripes?

One of my eight chicks has a creamy yellowy belly, but still a dark top, but I guess that means that one will be a splash?

It was very difficult to take good pictures, the room they are in is a bit dim, and then the red heat lamp, etc.

Anyway, these two pictures came out the clearest.

 

[PeakyBeaky]

I have been looking through pictures on this thread, and most of the chicks have stripes. Mine have the very faintest, almost completely invisible stripes.

What does that mean color wise? Very dark chicks with no stripes?

One of my eight chicks has a creamy yellowy belly, but still a dark top, but I guess that means that one will be a splash?

It was very difficult to take good pictures, the room they are in is a bit dim, and then the red heat lamp, etc.

Anyway, these two pictures came out the clearest.

 

[8isenuff]

The 'dottes have started hatching and I got a splash!....i think i might secretly like the splash better than the blue..!

 

[Soltaria]

The 'dottes have started hatching and I got a splash!....i think i might secretly like the splash better than the blue..!

I'm with you. I love my splash babies.
Mine came out a lot darker than I was expecting. I thought they'd be white. I'm really happy with how they look.
I'm going to try and breed them darker and darker blue in hopes of accomplishing something more similar to a regular blue that breeds true.

 

[malndobe]

Wandered around with my camera yesterday and took some photos of my newest BLRW girls. These 3 pullets (2 splash, 1 blue) are about 6 months old, from a hatch I did last Dec. One of the splash girls has a blue zip tie on her leg to tell them apart. It was a hot day, hence the droopy wings. Going to be even hotter today.

 

[malndobe]

And a crappy cell phone photo of their "brother", a cockerel from the same hatch.