Opinions Please On This Baby

[TheOddOneOut]

So what do we call this? Splash with red leakage? Or, as someone local suggested, splash laced red??

Splash with red leakage.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

She’s a Super Blue Egger. I believe she’s got some leghorn in her, as that is the cross. I don’t know that else is in her, but she is blue splash with red/ gold leakage.
She is a superb layer of large ice-blue eggs.
Here she is at maturity.

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She has some crazy spangling/ lacing on her chest.

 

[Regina Larsen]

She has some crazy spangling/ lacing on her chest. View attachment 2860483

I think she is just lovely.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

She looked similar to your chick as a baby…but more of a buttery caramel color instead of red. She had the biggest inky-black eyes. She was striking then and is striking now.
Her name is Vanilla.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I think she is just lovely.

She is. She has a nice personality.
I nearly lost her this summer. We had a crazy heat wave. She went through an excruciating egg-binding episode. But she’s okay now.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I’m sure my Vanilla and your chick have some very different genes, @The Kooky Kiwi. But they both appear to be some sort of splash with leakage.

 

[Regina Larsen]

She is. She has a nice personality.
I nearly lost her this summer. We had a crazy heat wave. She went through an excruciating egg-binding episode. But she’s okay now.

Im glad she made it. Such a mix of 'golds and silvers' shades. I dread an egg bound emergency. Havent dealt with it yet

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Im glad she made it. Such a mix of 'golds and silvers' shades. I dread an egg bound emergency. Havent dealt with it yet

In the sunlight she reminds me of a jumble of gold, copper and silver coins. She’s a very pretty bird.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I wish I understood genetics better lol.

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

I wish I understood genetics better lol.

Me too! I love learning about the genetics.

I try my best to understand what my particular birds are - so I can make informed breeding decisions.

In this case, the parent birds were hatched from purchased eggs, and in these circumstances you only have the breeders information to go on with respect to their colour and genetic makeup.

In this case, the parent birds are carrying additional traits, so now I just have to work out what they are, what to expect, and from there:

A) Do I want to keep going with these birds knowing the potential chick outcomes?
B) Are these birds going to improve or detract from my goal to improve the quality of the birds in general?

All very well to have birds split to all manner of things, if you WANT to get a lovely lolly scramble of chicks.
But it's rather frustrating when you are doing project breeding and you want to keep your genetic traits as clean as possible to avoid surprise outcomes.