The Wyandotte Thread

[Junibutt]

@Avlana

If you do have purebred of both parents, according to the chicken calculator, you will get half blue and half black. The cockerels will be split for chocolate
If you continue with Blue Split Roo and cross it with the mother, you will get some khaki, along with black, blue and chocolate.
I don't know what your objectives are but you will only have some khakis as a new color from the two.
Cross the khakis together and you will get some splashes along with chocolate and more khakis

Now what would be more fun is crossing a BLR Roo with the chocolate hen. The Khakis resulting from that will eventually produce Chocolate laced Wyandottes but you will have to breed a lot to get the right genotype of the Khakis for that.

 

[DMRippy]

Ok we are mixing metaphors. Dun and Khaki are BOTH the dun gene. Dun is one dose and Khaki is two like splash. They breed like splash too. You can take a BBS chart and just drop in Dun for blue and Khaki for splash. Dun is NOT the choc genes. Choc is also sex linked so it adds a new element to the confusion. You get either choc or splits with choc gene. When you mix in blue you get Mauve and Blue. If you crossed with a BLRW I am not sure what you would get really. I know lavender dilutes red to cream and black to lavender. I don't know if choc effects red or not.

When you cross a Choc hen with a blue cock
ALL the cockerels will be split for choc
as with any Blue breeding you will get 50/50 blue and black.
I would cull the pullets since they don't carry the choc gene.
The blue Roos over the Choc will then produces some choc/Mauve cockerels and in the pullets Choc/Mauve/Blue/Black.
Pick the Choc and Mauves and set your pen up from there.

On the calculator I change the choc gene in the lower part to make them choc. I don't know what the I gene is.... sorry. Not that in to genetics.

 

[HeavyChicken]

Here are my two SLW and a GLW at one week.

 

[Avlana]

Thank you both so much! It can be very confusing but I think I got it!

 

[WendyF]

Here are my two SLW and a GLW at one week.

Cuties!

 

[jeepgrl]

Here are my two SLW and a GLW at one week.

They are so stinkin cute!!!

 

[cabinchicky]

two of my glw at 6 months, sorry for the EES in here too. Mixed flock and so mixed pic.

 

[WendyF]

Gorgeous! Ps i could look at ee pics all day

 

[Hens and Roos]

at what age should we be able to start telling pullets from cocks?

 

[Papas Chickens]

I was able to tell my Roos from Pullets at 4 weeks.