Blue Laced Red Wyandottes

[dmiravalle]

Thanks, my kids wanted to show theirs.

 

[AinaWGSD]

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Blue is a dilution gene. One copy dilutes the black to the lighter blue color. Two copies of blue dilutes the black pigment even further to "splash." A blue bird has one "blue" gene and one "black" gene, which is why breeding two blue birds together can result in blue (one blue, one black), black (two black), or splash (two blue) chicks. It's not negative per-say, and it's just something that you have to take along with the blue since blue won't breed true. However, even where blue is a showable color (such as blue wyandottes, blue andalusians (sp?), etc) the splash is either a DQ or a serious fault. Which is a shame, since splash can be so very pretty. So people who are hatching chicks with plans to show may be disappointed to get only splash (or splash and black) chicks.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Ooh! Can I play? These are my two roos, one from Foley one from Sterling Center

splash hen

 

[TheSheriffswife]

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Blue is a dilution gene. One copy dilutes the black to the lighter blue color. Two copies of blue dilutes the black pigment even further to "splash." A blue bird has one "blue" gene and one "black" gene, which is why breeding two blue birds together can result in blue (one blue, one black), black (two black), or splash (two blue) chicks. It's not negative per-say, and it's just something that you have to take along with the blue since blue won't breed true. However, even where blue is a showable color (such as blue wyandottes, blue andalusians (sp?), etc) the splash is either a DQ or a serious fault. Which is a shame, since splash can be so very pretty. So people who are hatching chicks with plans to show may be disappointed to get only splash (or splash and black) chicks.

Thank You for that explanation! And with that being said, Is "Splash" actually a color? when you said diluted blue, splash would be a diluted version of the darker blue? so when people say they have a splash hen its light blue/gray? In regards to the BLR's I see what you mean..But I also could have sworn I have seen other colors (light tans, whites also referred to as splash) so just wanted to figure this out..Sorry, I am new to chickens and just want to understand. Thanks again!

 

[deineria]

Yours are lovely, Lovinmypeeps!

Back on the single shot of one of the young chicks - does anyone think that ones looks blue?

 

[dmiravalle]

The Birds are here: Thank you Kirstie!! We have a start in BLRW. And actually my boys LOVE the splash!

OK the roos been named Kernal Pomagranite and the girls are Strawberry shortcake and Blueberry Muffin and yes, the boys DID name them!!

And our new Roo did the happy dance around his new girls for about 10 minutes. I have never seen anything like it.

 

[chickenlady81]

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Very pretty birds! That roo is giving you the stink eye!

 

[dmiravalle]

He is actually really sweet, you can just pick him up and hold him and he makes that purring noise. But he was facinated by the camera!! Something shiney I guess.

 

[colby318]

Wow! You started off with very nice foundation stock!
Colby in KY

 

[dmiravalle]

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The person I got them from was very nice. Thank you. I have a friend who is working on the little ones, he was really educational at a show yesterday. There was not one single BLRW at the show in the LF. Alan had all the bantams. But I can see at least in the bantams were they are starting to look almost more like cochins. It was very educational.