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as i understand it he is careering the birchen and gold genes... the splash shows whats hiding under the black real well... these came direct from John Blehm as day old chicks... alot of the blacks are not pure/extended black but do not show it... as for the chicks from these eggs a few of the blue males might show a feather or 2 of gold in there necks and the splash will show more gold like this one does the blacks will not show it at all... and all the hens should not show it at all ether... if i had a better colored male i would not use this one but he is all i have right now... i am keeping all of my splash chicks this year in hopes of getting a better one to use next year... as for this guy i am going to use him over brown red hens to get lemon blue project Ameraucana next year...
thanks so much they have been a 2 year work in progress, lost 3 blue hens a blue roo and a splash roo to coons earlier this year grrr, now I have a dog out by the chicken pens so far so good no more midnight raids