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Yes I think you would have washed out color. I copied this from another site and may help:
The SOP for Splash is Slaty blue and white that has a faint bluish gray tinge. The undercolor s/be slaty blue and sooty white.
If you keep breeding Splash to Splash, you will wash out the Slaty Blue. Hence the recommendation to breed back to Blue or Black as needed. I would make sure if breeding back to Black that it is a B/B/S Black, and not a (regular) Black.
So I have this guy: Mr. Crispy-
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/86165_110311121822.jpg
Would it be better to put him over the splash hen? He came from B/B/S. I have a couple of black hens from B/B/S as well, would I be likely to get splash frizzles if I were to mate the blue frizzle roo to those girls? Sorry for all the questions, but I've never had a game plan. Usually I just let them go to it, and then I see what I get
Also, I thought my frizzle roo was a blue, not splash. Would you call him a splash? And the hen is still getting more blue everyday, all of my Cochins are about 7 months old, so I guess I'm really counting my chickens before they hatch, considering they haven't even started laying yet! Thanks!
Here's a more recent picture of the splash hen, it shows how she has more blue coming in...sort of.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/86165_110811151237.jpg
Frizzles tend to look washed out anyway because of the feather condition. Since blue is a dilution of black and splash another dilution of blue, it can tend to fade the colors when you use two birds from the lighter end of the color spectrum. I would suggest if you wanted good looking splashes with good contrast to their feathers, use a splash hen with a super dark blue roo. you will still likely end up with a few washed out looking birds simply because blue is so variable. I hope this helps and this is simply my opinion. Good luck.