North Carolina

[FVRM]

This is the way I understand the blue color (not self blue as in lavender)
 [COLOR=333333]Black x Splash = 100% blue[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]
[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]Black x Blue = 50% black, 50% blue[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]
[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]Blue x Blue = 25% black, 50% Blue, 25% splash[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]
[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]Blue x Splash = 50% Blue, 50% splash[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]
[/COLOR][COLOR=333333]Splash x Splash = 100% splash[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]So how would the splash color be a wild card? And what colors do you get when you breed your splash to splash birds?[/COLOR]

Well since blue and splash are not SOP varieties, I wouldn't use them to breed for BCM SOP. That's if you're just starting with the BCMs if you have experience with them go ahead and use them. I know about the above breeding chart but wouldn't the splash and blue have an effect on melanization causing different shades of blues and blacks

 

[starlingdaly]

Well since blue and splash are not SOP varieties, I wouldn't use them to breed for BCM SOP. That's if you're just starting with the BCMs if you have experience with them go ahead and use them. I know about the above breeding chart but wouldn't the splash and blue have an effect on melanization causing different shades of blues and blacks

Well yes okay, obviously since blue and splash aren't accepted by the APA then it would be unwise to mix the colors while trying to improve the black coppers. I don't think it would mess with the melanizers on the black variety but I could be wrong as I have not studied chicken genetics so deeply.
All the same, it is a fun project color that may one day be accepted into the SOP but most people who have those colors mixed are doing it as a hobby and not aggressively culling for the standard of perfection.

 

[FVRM]

Well,,,,the bad weather is coming!!!!   Keep your head down people and peeps!  

Some members in other states closer to the north have posted about this weather killing their chicks/pullets. I hope mine are okay outside, they all have shelter but they're not too smart and choose to stay outside. I've been teaching some pullets to perch in the coop. But it's like teaching a cripple how to walk. They prefer to huddle in a corner of the pen.

 

[ramirezframing]

Quote: You're right, only black copper, wheaten, and white are accepted at the moment. Blue copper will probably be the next color accepted. The splash color variation is not recognized in many breeds, some breeds it is recognized, either way one could still show a splash under AOV of the breed. I understand blue dilutes black just as dun does. When breeding blues, one will end up with different shades in blue (from very light to very dark, almost black looking but not black). Black will still be black.

Either way your answer still hasn't said how splash to splash is a wild card in color. I consider a wild card in color as something where the out come is unknown. Kinda like breeding ee's, you never can say what color the offspring will be. But with a splash to splash mating one should expect splash offspring. Do you breed blue marans or splash birds of any breed to come up with the wild card in the splash color? If so what colors have you produced from a splash to splash mating?

 

[sbrooks88]

God bless any of you in the storms way.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Well,,,,the bad weather is coming!!!!   Keep your head down people and peeps!  

Some members in other states closer to the north have posted about this weather killing their chicks/pullets. I hope mine are okay outside, they all have shelter but they're not too smart and choose to stay outside. I've been teaching some pullets to perch in the coop. But it's like teaching a cripple how to walk. They prefer to huddle in a corner of the pen.

No, we don't!

 

[ChicknsRock]

Today was very humid over here...and later in the afternoon we got a serious downpour and thunder. Well, as they say, April Showers Bring May Flowers. But I hope these April showeres don't turn into serious damag makers like WRAL says.

 

[ramirezframing]

Well, I think I need a bigger pump! Lake Ramirez is over taking the pump and I'm waiting for the fish to leave their pond and fatten up some on the neighbor's yard bugs. Hopefully the river cooter doesn't move back in before I can get Lake Ramirez gone.

Hope everyone is safe along with all critters.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Tractor supply should have corid. Call and ask them to check the shelf. Don't tell them it's for chickens or they'll look in the chicken section. They won't find it there. Tell them it's called corid and it's for the treatment of coccidia in cattle and goats. I literally had to show the people who work at ours where it was!

They're out. I went there. Went to Lake Rim. Went to the feed store downtown. Called the TSC's all the way down to Lumberton. Only thing I could find was a $30 bottle of liquid getting here tomorrow night. I had my husband cull the one I saw do it, the other 9 seem to be hanging in there if they don't drown from all this rain!!!

 

[dutchbunny83]

Can a possum kill a chicken?

YES!!!
Stupid stupid possums!
That's how I lost my ridiculously priced sexed silkies from My Pet Chicken, and all the Blue Isbars I hatched (which those eggs weren't cheap either!!!)
I was closing the door to my run but leaving the coop door inside open thinking it was secure, but there was a slight opening where the bird netting met the fence and he was squeezing in.
A HUGE one was going in my meat turkey pen last Fall before I put the bird netting on the top (my turkeys were way too fat to fly the 7ft out). I watched him go in there, he's run right up the side of the fence and go down. He wouldn't mess with the turkeys as they were too big, but he would sit there and eat their food. My husband was away with the Army & he sent me out there with a shovel in the middle of the nigh to kill him (which I couldn't do). He seemed totally domesticated too living in town. Didn't try to run or hiss or play dead when I was right up next to him. I thought he was going to start rubbing up on my leg to be pet like a cat. DH took care of him when he came home a couple weeks later...

My main predators are hawks, followed by the possum. If they lost the sitting chicken during the day it would have more likely been a hawk, but I didn't think they would go in a nest box like that? Possum only come out at night. My possum ate my birds thoroughly, but they were still young. The hawks possibly got scared off, but they mainly ripped heads off or ripped the bodies and left them, didn't really eat them or carry them off. Not sure if that's the normal? I know it was hawks though because I caught them each time. Racoons are another one that will kill chickens too, and usually bigger than possums. Once again, they only hunt at night though.