here's my funky new wyandotte color, barred buff laced.

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Why? Have you experienced this effect on birds which go on to have tidy, complete single lacing? I've only seen this effect on the juvenile feathers of the multiple laced pattern but not on decent single lace.
It is a few years since I had any blue laced wyandottes but I don't remember the splash laced having juvenile feathers any different to the other laced wyandottes (except the lace was splash.

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Anyone have pics of splash laced?

 

[Missouri Maiden]

Interesting... and by interesting I mean AWSOME!

 

[hoppy]

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Why? Have you experienced this effect on birds which go on to have tidy, complete single lacing? I've only seen this effect on the juvenile feathers of the multiple laced pattern but not on decent single lace.
It is a few years since I had any blue laced wyandottes but I don't remember the splash laced having juvenile feathers any different to the other laced wyandottes (except the lace was splash.

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Anyone have pics of splash laced?

the bird in my avatar is a splash laced. she looks nothing like the chick. this chick came from an ebay set of eggs.

I found this picture of one of my splash laced BLR as a chick, almost the same age.

 

[Henk69]

The chick could be a splash (concentric) pencilled.
They start out transverse pencilled.

 

[keesmom]

I hope you continue to post pictures as the little one grows up!

-Cindy in MA

 

[Uppity Peon]

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She isn't properly laced.

Yes, but I would think the lacing would also be interrupted by the splash gene.

I need to learn these terms. Can you point me to a good Internet resource for my chicken colors education?

BTW I have a couple EE chicks that look similar at 5 weeks:

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

My Splash laced roo looked like that when he was a chick, he was soooooo ugly until he was about 8-10 months old and acctually started to look proper.

 

[hoppy]

Uppity Peon- your chicks certainly similiar to mine.

fancyfowl4ever - your bird changed that much! wow, chicken colors are really weird with how they start out and how much they don't look like the same bird, I'd never think this bird would get that dark.

 

[Goat_Walker]

WOW! thats a cool coloring

 

[hoppy]

I am sad to report that my beautiful white laced buff as she turned out to be, got nabbed by a fox or hawk or something. regardless, she's gone. I so had great plans for her.