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[Buckguy20]

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Me too! I am heading to the great Eastern Hills (Ouchita Mountains) in SE OK.
Looking for wild turkeys and wild hogs. Can't wait!

What are you doing on your extra day off? I know, I know working! You have a lot of nerve to tell Al to take it easy.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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He's talking about what we would call a splash. Something to do with how OEGB breeders label colors. Got Game & Carl tried explaining it a few days ago.

 

[Buckguy20]

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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

 

[GotGame]

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He's talking about what we would call a splash. Something to do with how OEGB breeders label colors. Got Game & Carl tried explaining it a few days ago.

Lol, yes a sport is the same as a splash to 99% of chicken folks, lol (just not us old english folks, we are just strange)...what I call a sport is a bird that has NO blue or black splashing color through their body, like the blue brassy sport hen I put a pic up of....she is totally white except for the salmon breast, just replace the black in a brassy back with white adn you have a sport....

 

[Sooner]

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Me too! I am heading to the great Eastern Hills (Ouchita Mountains) in SE OK.
Looking for wild turkeys and wild hogs. Can't wait!

What are you doing on your extra day off? I know, I know working! You have a lot of nerve to tell Al to take it easy.

I hope you have alot of fun on your hunting trip!!! Take some pictures will you?

For you information I do plan to relax some on my day off! The only thing I want to do is move the A Frame collony! I am hoping for sunny weather & I am going to lay in the hamock. Now see there's my plan so cross your fingers that it works out that way!

 

[GotGame]

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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.....

 

[Buckguy20]

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He's talking about what we would call a splash. Something to do with how OEGB breeders label colors. Got Game & Carl tried explaining it a few days ago.

Lol, yes a sport is the same as a splash to 99% of chicken folks, lol (just not us old english folks, we are just strange)...what I call a sport is a bird that has NO blue or black splashing color through their body, like the blue brassy sport hen I put a pic up of....she is totally white except for the salmon breast, just replace the black in a brassy back with white adn you have a sport....

OK Thanks! I thought I was gonna have to study harder.

 

[Buckguy20]

I hope it wworks out. How long do I have to keep my fingers crossed?

 

[GotGame]

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Lol, yes a sport is the same as a splash to 99% of chicken folks, lol (just not us old english folks, we are just strange)...what I call a sport is a bird that has NO blue or black splashing color through their body, like the blue brassy sport hen I put a pic up of....she is totally white except for the salmon breast, just replace the black in a brassy back with white adn you have a sport....

OK Thanks! I thought I was gonna have to study harder.

No sir, I am new to chickens, and have been studying my hindend off trying to learn about them, and genetics, and I have learned just enough to know I dont know much, lol....I am hoping to at least get ot where I understand the genetics behind blues better...

 

[Sooner]

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Just until you need them to shoot with. Ya'll leaving Thrusday or Friday?