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yes, the sport is an off color but is anticipated, anytime you breed a blue to a blue (except for self blue) you will get a Black bird, a Blue bird, and a Sport or splash. I am told us old english people are the only ones that call them sports, they are what everyone else calls splashes, basically it is a black that has been diluted twice, where a blue is a black that has only had one dilution gene added to it...but you take a sport and breed it to the black variety, say take a blue brassy sport hen like the one posted, and breed it to a straight brassy back cock and you will get all blue brassy backs. Andalusion blue is actually just the result of a dilution gene added to black....some people say sports bred to the parent variety is the best way to get good even colored blues, as long as the sports are as cleanly colored as that sport hen....
I am not sure I understand because I thought a sport wasn't something that you breed for. I thought it was something genetically that pops out some times. An anomole?
I have always heard the birds you are talking about called splash when breeding birds with the blue gene.
Can you explain what you feel the difference is?
I have three breeds of blue birds, NN's, Ameraucanas, and Giants.
I get blues. blacks, and what I call splash
I am just trying to understand.
Monty
Monty, a splash is a sport, just a difference in terminology with us old english people...99% of the splashes are not work much, but very occasionally you get one that is totally white except for where they should have color, like a salmon breast in a brassy back...that is what we call a sport, and they arent good for showing, but great for breeding pens....you take a very clean sport and breed it to a black variety of the same bird, and you get 100% blue.....
