My Newest Blue and Splash Orpingtons

[Farmer Kitty]

Nice looking chicks. I missed that you were hatching again.

 

[MissPrissy]

Kitty, I poppd these in to test Mosby's fertility. I had no clue they would hatch.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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This is how we mark puppies, too, to make sure we get the birth-order right and keep accurate records! Our pups are always black at birth, with no markings. A dab of white nail polish on various body parts helps a lot in keeping them straight!

Also, my husband, who has not cared one bit about what kind of chickens I have, or where they come from, or what they look like, having now seen blue Orps, has asked, "Why don't we have some of THOSE?"

Guess I know what's next on the chicken wish-list.

 

[CathyB]

They are beautiful babies! I love the nail polish color!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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I have a Splash roo it's just not from one of my own rooster and hens trio...

Thanks for asking tho

 

[Katy]

Sandy...do these chicks make you a great grandma??!!

 

[Homegroanacres]

OK time for some "leanin"

Are there dif colors of blue Orps?
(maybe a dark blue and hhmmm a gun metal blue or
something more towards a gary color)

Splash chicks look cream colored correct?

Black would be really Black as a chick?


John

 

[MissPrissy]

I have a very hard time with poultry genetics but I do know this much about breeding with the percentages based on hatching 100 chicks.

The gene produces blue, black or splash

Blue x Blue = 25% Black (without the blue gene) 50% Blue (with one blue gene) 25% splash (with two blue genes)

Black x Blue = 50% Black 50% Blue

Black x Splash = 100% Blue

Blue x Splash = 50% Blue 50% Splash

Splash x Splash = 100% Splash

Mosby is Blue. Bonnie is blue. The predictable outcome of the hatching eggs is 25% Black (without the blue gene) 50% Blue (with one blue gene) 25% splash (with two blue genes). I won the gamble this round - 1 blue 2 splash chicks.

Those 2 splash babies will eventually feather out a dirty white with 'splashes' of color.

From another hatch of eggs from TOH I got these

L to R - splash, blue, ignore the next buff x blue it is non standard, in front a black.

Does that help at all?

 

[Homegroanacres]

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Yes it does

Can you take it two steps futher?

Add in White and Self Blue


John

 

[MissPrissy]

errr - there is a dominant white and a recessive white and black and white won't give you blue.

umm - lavander is a defect or mutation on the blue gene.

That is the best I can possibly do LOL