Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

[RobG7aChattTN]

Lost all three of my Black/red 7 week olds today to we think a bad bag of feed. Somehow Stellar and my other two blues survived. Lost 23 chicks all together. Going to try and find some more black and splash chicks. Hopefully.

Were you using medicated feed the whole time? If not, might have been coccidiosis.

 

[yoopergirl1211]

Were you using medicated feed the whole time? If not, might have been coccidiosis.

No I have had to deal with that before. I lost birds from 4 different brooders and the number dead and how fast they died correlates with when and amounts they ate. Getting it tested if I can figure out where. Tbey went from fine to lethargic then paralytic and seizures within a few hours. Once i got food away from them no one else got sick. It sucked

 

[waddles99]

Medicated feed won't always protect you from cocci

 

[LyonsZoo]

Okay.....good to know. Do you think it is a pullet?

 

[LyonsZoo]

Thats a splash laced red wyandotte, not a blue

Okay.....good to know. Do you think it is a pullet?

 

[waddles99]

Okay.....good to know. Do you think it is a pullet?

Looks like a pullet.

 

[MrChicken204]

Pictures of my 22-24 week old roo. And 13 week old pullets. I have a question for any of you that are knowledgeable about breeding, I'd like to try and breed these but am looking for insight first about what I could expect? I feel like I have a decent rooster, deep mahogany, fairly decent lacing. I'm not sure about the pullets though. They have more of the brassy orange and. What could I expect in my baby chicks? Would the mahogany from the roo show in the chicks?

 

[NCcitychicken]

Here's my 3! Really excited to see them color in, one splash and two blues

 

[Fancychooklady]

Pictures of my 22-24 week old roo. And 13 week old pullets. I have a question for any of you that are knowledgeable about breeding, I'd like to try and breed these but am looking for insight first about what I could expect? I feel like I have a decent rooster, deep mahogany, fairly decent lacing. I'm not sure about the pullets though. They have more of the brassy orange and. What could I expect in my baby chicks? Would the mahogany from the roo show in the chicks?

Your cockerel is a blue, but the pullets are blacks, so by breeding blue to black the possible outcome is 50/50 . Ie 50%blue and 50% black.

 

[hmarg06]

I disagree. The first pullet looks black to me, and the second looks like a very dark blue. I wouldn't judge their end color quite yet, the pullets could change quite a bit still. I agree your cockerel looks like he will stay nice and dark. In my flock, the roosters are darker than my hens too, I'm not sure if that's common, or a coincidence. For my own breeding I'm going to try breeding my darkest to my darkest.