Sexing BLRW's, Pictures added

[emsevers]

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I know, I was actually really dissapointed with the coloring of these birds. I got them from someone on eggbid that didn't show any pictures of his birds. I'll never do that again. I'm so dissapointed that I think I'm going to sell them.

 

[yotetrapper]

Just to clear things up a bit, it's not likely the breeders fault. The blue laced red wyandotte comes in three color phases, blue/black/splash. Your first chicken is blue. The others are black. Tyhe breeder has little control over which color they get. If you breed bluexblue, you get 25% splash, 50% blue, and 25% black. If you breed black to blue you get a 50x50 split. If you breed splash to blue you get a 50/50 split. If you breed splash to black, you get 100% blue but you lose some other qualities that are desirably by only making that cross. Judging by the high percentage of black in your birds, your breeder "may" have bred blue x black... OR you may have just been unlucky in a bluexblue breeding.

Edited to add: I would keep the chickens! Lacing is good, blue coloring is good. Breed that top chicken to one of the black ones and you will get a 50/50 split of blue and black (roughly). Then, breed a blue to a blue to get more blues, and some splash birds, if those are what you like.

 

[emsevers]

I wouldn't be surprised if I was just unlucky. It seems like everything I hatch ends up being a roo or not the color I was looking for. It can get a little frustrating. It wouldn't be so bad if I could have 20 hens and a few roos but living in the city I don't really have that option. I wish I would have know what my chances were before I spent so much money on the eggs, but that's my fault for not finding out.

 

[FlashPointFarm]

The 2nd to last one looks like a hen for sure. I'd say on the others, give them a couple more weeks.

 

[melissastraka]

If you decide to sell them please let me know. I am in WA and if it not to far, i would love to rehome them. ( i think you should keep them though)

 

[Jamie821]

In order to keep the blrw right you have to have a light roo over dark hens or dark roo over light hens. What the breeder of those has done is not separated the dark from the light. If you have a roo set him up with the opposite colored hens. It will make the coloring right again. If you let the colors run together you will start getting a throw back to a silver laced wyandotte.

 

[LoveMyBirds]

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I have no ideal if this is factual or not.. I read a post here the other day that stated you could lay the little chicks in your hand on their backs..

If they try to get up they were roos.. and if they laid there they were hens..

Another poster replied that they tried it and that it seemed to work.

Last year when my turkeys were about 3 months old, I thought just by their actions (strutting, red necks etc..) that I had 6 goblers and one hen..

It turned out that I have 6 hens and one gobler...