Very good question! I don't know. Yes, both rooster and hen were/are splash. 2 of the chicks I hatched are splash. I had heard the same thing - that they would most likely be all splash or majority splash. I think that 3 are blue and 2 are black. I will try to get pics of them tomorrow - I will be sure you can see the little crest on the one little girl (I'm pretty sure she is a pullet).I'm glad they hatched out well. I got a mix of colors from a bluexblue breeding. (Also got a blue chick from my blue Isbar roo and a red EE hen (with grey under fluff) who is very pretty, nice lacing and white marks on the tips of the lower hackles that look like a necklace.) (The EE's eggs are similar in color to the Isbar hens and one got mixed in). I'm puzzled. You said that the hen and roo of your pure hatch are both splash and only 2 of the chicks were splash and 5 were blue or black? I thought that splash to splash only threw splash in BBS breeding??? Could a little crest have come down from the araucana used on the development of the Isbar?
Mary in Maine
My son and I really looked at the olive eggers today. We figured out that the 2 pullets with the Isbar daddy have my blue laced red wyandotte as the mother. They have beautiful laced feathers and around their necks and chest the feathers are like the wyandotte as well - both of them are just a very pretty slate gray color.
On another note, my husband shocked me yesterday by bringing home 5 mystery bantams from tractor supply - the last ones they had. I've been trying to identify them all day. Of course, they gave him a "deal" on them if he would take all 5. I had to act like I was very thrilled when I opened the little box. Actually, I was horrified thinking that they would be hawk bait, for sure! We will just have to be extra diligent in watching out for them once we get to the point of letting these little things out. I believe 3 of them are some type of Old English Game bantams and one is definitely a barred cochin and the other is a red cochin. They will be very cute, I'm sure. I just don't know what my husband was thinking because they are way too small and they will lay tiny eggs that we cannot sell - just like our d'uccles. We just save all those eggs for us to eat or I will cook them up to feed back to the girls. Guess we will just have a gracious plenty to keep for ourselves and "the girls" now.....