Is there such a thing as a Splash Wyandotte?*pic* Is this one?

[Krys109uk]

The eggs wasn't BLRW. They were supposed to be Blue-Laced Wyandottes.

I could be wrong but the chick does not look like a splash.

In my experience, splashes tend to have a slightly dark cast to their down.

Are Blue Wyandottes supposed to be laced in USA? How confusing the name is; blue laced wyandotte is the UK name for the BLRW.

 

[Attack Chicken]

I seen a picture of one of Feathersite. I'll have to get a more updated picture when I get home. I hope it turns out to be a girl. I'm falling in love with wyandottes.

 

[Katy]

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I could be wrong but the chick does not look like a splash.

In my experience, splashes tend to have a slightly dark cast to their down.

Are Blue Wyandottes supposed to be laced in USA? How confusing the name is; blue laced wyandotte is the UK name for the BLRW.

My blues have lacing on them, but they're just called blue. I've never heard them called laced either. That's why I thought she had BLRW eggs.

My splash wyandotte chicks hatch out with a blue cast, but once they feather out some they look pretty much like the chick she has.

 

[Krys109uk]

My splash wyandotte chicks hatch out with a blue cast, but once they feather out some they look pretty much like the chick she has.

Am I looking at the right chick? Perhaps it's my computer screen. I see a very yellow chick with black spots. No grey cast.

 

[Attack Chicken]

Ok Heres the 3 chicks I hatched out of the same kind of eggs They were labeled Blue-Laced Bantam Wyandottes

Feathersite took out the picture of the Blue-Laced wyanddote and put in a Violet Blue-Laced. I'll have to call the breeder...
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wyand/BRKWyand.html

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I have had splash with yellowish-white down, with white down and yet others with silvery down.

 

[amazondoc]

That breeder is just confusing you.

So far as I know, there is no such thing as a variety called "blue laced" in the US. There's "blue", and there's "blue laced red", but not just "blue laced". HOWEVER, the ideal "blue" bird has a darker blue lacing on each feather, so the breeder may have tacked on the "laced" word just to emphasize the lacing.

Your birds appear to be BBS (black/blue/splash) wyandottes. That means you will be likely to get black, blue, and splash in the same clutch (depending on exactly what the parents looked like). That's the way the blue gene works. I have blue wheaten and blue birchen Marans myself, so I get some exposure to BBS genetics.

My splash birchen chicks definitely did tend to hatch with yellow down, although the darkest splash chick was gray at hatch. So it can go either way.

 

[Katy]

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I agree with you. Mine to varying degrees have blue lacing on them. That's one of the things I'd like to get even better on mine.

 

[Krys109uk]

How interesting....in UK blue wyandottes are to be "an even shade of blue.......quite without lacing..."

 

[Chickndaddy]

I agree, they are probably Blue Wyandottes. You lucked out and got a black and splash as well. However, I think they are probably large fowl and not bantam. They look to big to be bantam.