I am going to be saving some of my own eggs, and building my flock of OEGBs. I only have one rooster and three hens of mixed colors, so I got on the chicken calculator to see what I might get. I was sad to see that my splash hen is only going to make white chicks. My question is... If I save two white chicks and breed them next year can I get more splash, or do I breed one back to the mother? I know this is probably silly question, but I don't know much about breeding for color. Any help would be great, and could someone tell me the color of my rooster. Thanks so much. This is my splash hen and my rooster, just in case you need pictures.
Splash chickens are homozygous for the blue gene and therefore will produce either splash or blue based birds. You should not get white out of a splash unless both the splash and the rooster you are breeding to carry recessive white. Even then you would only get approximately 25% white birds. Bred to that rooster you should get a combination of blue, splash, blue breasted red and splash breasted red.
