The Wyandotte Thread

[TurkeyMountainChickens]

I've noticed that the blue "BLRW" look blackish when they are chicks. And the lighter colored ones are generally splash, not blue. Your lighter chicks look splash to me (with my albeit limited experience). Here are three of mine, with ALL turned out to be splash:

 

[BluffCountryShepherdess]

Thank you, TurkeyMountainChickens!

I guess that's what happened to me. I thought I had four blue, 2 black and one splash but it turns out I have 4 Splash, 2 dark blue.

Here are a couple of photos that help show what I THOUGHT were "blue"

and "splash"

It was quite easy for me to think the first one was blue ~ compared to the second one, which (to me) was obviously splash. Which, by comparison, made Gibbs and Pearl black!

Live and Learn, I guess...

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

the "blue" does vary from bird to bird.......it can range from a very light blue to a very dark blue. The splash birds are white like the second photo.......
If you have a lot of very light blues breed them to a black laced roo and it will darken up the blue. To keep the "blue" color from going all over the chart breed blue to blue and cull for color.

 

[dak]

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I have BLRWs hatching this Sat. Thanks for asking the questions BluffCountryShepherdess. I'm sure I would have made the same mistake. And thanks for the wisdom of the "elders" for setting us newbies straight. dak

 

[maryk117]

Black or Blue? Blue or Black? Neither? I thought they were both black. Now I think Lefty might just be Black and Righty is Blue. Are we tired of this debate yet?

One bird is a week older.

 

[BluffCountryShepherdess]

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Based on my VAST experience, I'd say they're both blue. But the beautiful, DARK blue!

Is that right ~ those of you who actually know what you're talking about?

 

[emjay]

Here are my two BLR girls. Gem and Lacey.

here is what I got when I bred my BLR roo to my SL hen.

 

[macmama]

My broody BO just hatched 5 SLW babies today (purebred-- she was just a surrogate).

Is there any way to know how they will feather out? They are all marked differently, and I was expecting them to be the same. I don't need show-quality birds, but I'd love some pretty ones.

Oh, and if feather-sexing is accurate, my only pullets are the top left with the lightest head and the one on the bottom right. Those 2 had much longer feather spikes, and had the difference in length of the 2 rows. The other 3 had short spikes all the same length.

 

[maryk117]

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Based on my VAST experience, I'd say they're both blue. But the beautiful, DARK blue!

Is that right ~ those of you who actually know what you're talking about?

Time will tell! It's so much easier with dogs and horses! Well sometimes not so much with horses...

 

[maryk117]

I'm sure the debate on color during "chick-hood" debate has been raging forever...has anybody ever posted a picture of a bird that is black as a pullet/cockerel about 6 weeks old that they are positive is black?? Is there as much debate about splash birds and how they were light, but got darker?? Just curious.