Shades of blue?

[pips&peeps]

I bet she doesn't, she would have some off colored feathers too. She looks clean for gold-silver or red.

I would see if you could get a nice black or blue roo to breed her to. I would get rid of the cockerel.....

 

[onthespot]

yeah, I just heard back from the lady I got him from, she just said the exact same thing... I got an UGLY splash Ameraucana roo yesterday. He is so ugly I don't want him in the same pen as her either. He came with a batch of a dozen POL easter eggers, $25 for all, along with a splash hen just as ugly as he is... I need a nice splash roo... and need to unload some not nice splash stuff.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Red on shoulders is more likely to be autosomal red than gold showing through. So yes, the pullet would also show it if she carried it, although on her it would more likely show on her breast.

 

[Krys109uk]

The leakage in those males is such that one wouldn't want that bird in a pen of B/B/S. I imagine it's lost recessive black & ther melanising genes.
Ameraucanas are E or ER?

I don't think there would be trouble with the breast colour of the females unless they were e+.

It seems that Bl can be very variable in expression, probably due to other the presence or absence of other genes, especially melanising factors.

 

[McSpin]

As long as you are evaluating splash color on roos, please give me your opinion on this one. Nothing rusty looking, just a brownish yellow tinge to the head and wing area. I have a couple young cockerels coming up out of this roo. Are they likely to show the same color as adults? None of my splash hens show anything except the darker splash colors.

 

[Kev]

I have a longtail hen that is light blue with dark splash patches all over her. Yet, she cannot be splash because she was out of a blue father and a not-blue(cuckoo) mother.. Does that happen often? I was very surprised seeing her grow up.

Regarding the leaky color on roo- it's been my experience it's rather easy to get black/blue hens with even color(no leaking) yet their brothers/sons/male relatives will show leakiness. Often they(the males) will grow up seeming solid colored but once the 'rooster feathers' come in these are the leaky parts. I don't think gold/silver has much to do with it- the leaky parts just come out white on a silver based black/blue rooster. So I would not be quick to assume that hen doesn't have whatever that causes the leakiness in the males.