So...About the Blue Gene? Give it to me Straight

[rodriguezpoultry]

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You mentioned the dark blue...

I have a chick that I swear was black when it hatched out. It dried off a bit and I see silver fuzz mixed into the black. Is there a possibility of this being the dark blue that you're talking about?? She doesn't look like any of my other blacks, but she doesn't look like the blue chick either. I'd LOVE to get photos...but can't seem to find my camera cord in this pit I call an apartment. SSSHHHH!!!! I do NOT have chickens in my apartment!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I was at our poultry meeting yesterday, and the breeders were talking about the same thing. They all agreed that you have to have a splash and a black to get a blue.

Angie

You do not have to breed that way. Yes, that will give you 100% blues, but you can also breed blue to blue or blue to black.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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You mentioned the dark blue...

I have a chick that I swear was black when it hatched out. It dried off a bit and I see silver fuzz mixed into the black. Is there a possibility of this being the dark blue that you're talking about?? She doesn't look like any of my other blacks, but she doesn't look like the blue chick either. I'd LOVE to get photos...but can't seem to find my camera cord in this pit I call an apartment. SSSHHHH!!!! I do NOT have chickens in my apartment!

Well, I would say that they are "not black" but do have dark down. Not sure what the silver mixed in indicates.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Figures. I get a tard chick. *sigh* Watch her be polka-dotted...LOL

 

[McSpin]

I have a splash roo on splash, blue and black hens. From what I understand on this gene, I should not be able to produce black. Here's a photo that shows one of the black chicks I shouldn't get. It shows not sign of any other color or hue, than dark black. What's up with that?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Genetically, it is probably a blue, and inherited all the melanizers that you wish it hadn't. Try test breeding to a splash or blue to see if if produces any splash offspring. That would tell you it is blue.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

With the sumatras we rarely get good blues. We had blue on blue last year and hatched out close to 75 chicks and got 2 splashes. The blues come out looking blue but they have black flecks everywhere.

With bantam sumatras we had a great blue hen with fertility issues and ended up finding a dark blue cock that looked black except you could see a hint of blue in his wings but nowhere else. We crossed him on blacks and got normal blues but not that many. It seems like when we want blues from a certain pen we get lots of black and when we want blacks from a certain pen they aways throw lots of blue.

I think they know what we want and are just being spiteful because we dont give them enough scratch and fruit, lol.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I am a firm believer in Murphy