New Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Flock

[Katy]

I like my splashes too, I think they're very pretty, but this is what I consider my ideal coloring

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

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Your birds are beautiful!!!!! I am working on a Silkie Breeding pen and have been thinking of doing a breeding pen of BLRW.

 

[bishopschickens]

Gorgeous Katy....

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Brandon

 

[Fay at Frizzled Feathers]

They are lookin good ! I love to watch them grow into big beautiful birds .

We do use the Black variety in our breeding flocks to acheive the nice dark blue color because thats my favorite ones. You are absolutely correct though there are peeps out there who dont want the black variety and some who only want the splashes .

Will enjoy watching this thread to see your birds grow !

Fay

 

[georgialee]

Beautiful, Katy!

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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we breed mostly blue X blue, but we do have a few very nice splash hens. We also cull out the black and don't use them unless they are a great example of the breed. Every one has their likes and dislikes when breeding.

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

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Well for the most part I consider them my line now because I've had them a while. The start of my birds came from Bill Braden, Sue Ozio, and the Foley line I added a couple of years ago. Just be aware (and you probably already are) that if you continue to breed splash to splash they will keep getting lighter and lighter which to me loses what a blue laced red is supposed to be. I've seen quite a few chicks posted lately that are so light in color I question how much lacing if any they're going to have......let alone any blue color.

Hey Brandon,

Katy is right about the splash X splash breeding getting lighter over the years, but you can darken that up by breeding one generation of the Black Laced roo on your splash hens. We have request for splash all the time....people go nuts over them.

 

[yotetrapper]

Now, that is an example, Katy, of what a BLUE laced red should look like! I've never gotten my blues that light. If my blues looked like that I might switch from splash being my favorite. You say that color blue comes from breeding splash to black?

 

[Chickndaddy]

I also have to agree with Katy, I bred for pretty blue girls like this one:

My birds were Mckinney and Govero lines before their flock was liquidated and Murray McMurray bought the parent stock. I had two breeding pens (for the most part) a blue roo over blue and splash hens and a Splash roo over blue, black and splash hens.

I think the blue and splash are the prettiest, but the blacks give you that gorgeous blue consistently when crossed to a splash roo so the pretty hens got to stay.

A few of my blues were a little too dark in my opinion, like here:

But for the most part I was happy with them even if Barry Koffler over at Feathersite accused me of being duped because my birds were "clearly poorly bred Golden-laced Wyandotte crosses.."

 

[NYREDS]

It's too bad that so many people who are breeding these are breeding for colour not for type. The hen that Kathy pictured isn't too bad but most of these I've seen at shows don't look at all like Wyandottes.