The Wyandotte Thread

[redrooster99]

I know that this is a few years back but do you still have the salmon wyandottes?

I hope they do

 

[Kathryn173]

If I breed a GLW roo to a SLW hen the chicken calculator says GLW pullets and SLW roos. If I breed the gold laced pullets back to their father will I get 100% gold laced chicks?

 

[bluesun62]

I know that this is a few years back but do you still have the salmon wyandottes?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/5241703/
That is one handsome Roo

 

[DMRippy]

If I breed a GLW roo to a SLW hen the chicken calculator says GLW pullets and SLW roos. If I breed the gold laced pullets back to their father will I get 100% gold laced chicks?

I think you might!

 

[Faith Chick]

Hi, I have a wyandotte breeding question.
I have some really nice SLW hens and a GLW hen. I have a Blue Laced Red Rooster and a Blue Laced Red (Splash)Rooster.
What Rooster would be best to breed to my hens? Or will both roosters throw the same color chicks with my hens?
Thanks

 

[Junibutt]

Hi, I have a wyandotte breeding question.
I have some really nice SLW hens and a GLW hen. I have a Blue Laced Red Rooster and a Blue Laced Red (Splash)Rooster.
What Rooster would be best to breed to my hens? Or will both roosters throw the same color chicks with my hens?
Thanks

Both of them will not throw same colors, so depends on what you are looking for"

Cross of BLRW Rooster with SLW hen will generate the following:

Half the hens will be Blue Laced Red and 1/2 of them be Black Laced Red
Half the cockerels be Golden Laced Blue and 1/2 of them Golden Laced Black

BLRW Rooster x GLW hen:

50% cockerels and pullets will be BLR and 50% Black Laced Red

BLR Splash Rooster x SLW hen:

All pullets will be BLR and all cockerels will be Blue Laced Gold

BLR Splash Rooster x GLW hen:

All pullets and cockerels will be BLR

You can use the chicken calculator for calculating future generations if you want to experiment with the Blue Laced Golds.

There are more opportunities to be found if you use a SLW rooster over BLR hen. That way you have possibility of getting some Blue Laced Silvers (very rare). However, to get good quality, you will have to breed a lot for some generations.

 

[Faith Chick]

Both of them will not throw same colors, so depends on what you are looking for"

Cross of BLRW Rooster with SLW hen will generate the following:

Half the hens will be Blue Laced Red and 1/2 of them be Black Laced Red
Half the cockerels be Golden Laced Blue and 1/2 of them Golden Laced Black

BLRW Rooster x GLW hen:

50% cockerels and pullets will be BLR and 50% Black Laced Red

BLR Splash Rooster x SLW hen:

All pullets will be BLR and all cockerels will be Blue Laced Gold

BLR Splash Rooster x GLW hen:

All pullets and cockerels will be BLR

You can use the chicken calculator for calculating future generations if you want to experiment with the Blue Laced Golds.

There are more opportunities to be found if you use a SLW rooster over BLR hen. That way you have possibility of getting some Blue Laced Silvers (very rare). However, to get good quality, you will have to breed a lot for some generations.

Wow, Thanks
Great info.
Blue laced gold would be nice!!!

 

[Junibutt]

Both of them will not throw same colors, so depends on what you are looking for"

Cross of BLRW Rooster with SLW hen will generate the following:

Half the hens will be Blue Laced Red and 1/2 of them be Black Laced Red
Half the cockerels be Golden Laced Blue and 1/2 of them Golden Laced Black

BLRW Rooster x GLW hen:

50% cockerels and pullets will be BLR and 50% Black Laced Red

BLR Splash Rooster x SLW hen:

All pullets will be BLR and all cockerels will be Blue Laced Gold

BLR Splash Rooster x GLW hen:

All pullets and cockerels will be BLR

You can use the chicken calculator for calculating future generations if you want to experiment with the Blue Laced Golds.

There are more opportunities to be found if you use a SLW rooster over BLR hen. That way you have possibility of getting some Blue Laced Silvers (very rare). However, to get good quality, you will have to breed a lot for some generations.

Wow, Thanks
Great info.
Blue laced gold would be nice!!!

I am not an expert at genetics, just used the chicken calculator. If you looking for Blue Laced Gold chicken, as you noticed, you are only getting Blue Laced Gold cockerels either way. You will have to ask one of the genetics experts here to find out how to get Blue Laced Gold pullets from there on.

Theoretically if you would cross the Blue Laced Gold F1 cockerels with the SLW mother, you will get 1/16 (6.25%) BLG pullets and 1/16 BLS pullets. If you have only 1 hen that means you will need to hatch a lot of chicks to get those results. You will be practically putting eggs in the incubator every week for many many weeks unless you are willing to wait for every generation to grow out and then decide next.

 

[loobyloo88]

Wondering if anyone can help me sex my 5 week old buff laced wyandotte bantam chick...I have a feeling its a roo but not very experienced with chicks and this is my first rose combed chicken too...is the reddening a good sogn its a roo?

 

[Farmer Viola]

Wondering if anyone can help me sex my 5 week old buff laced wyandotte bantam chick...I have a feeling its a roo but not very experienced with chicks and this is my first rose combed chicken too...is the reddening a good sogn its a roo?

looks like a cockerel to me, because of the pink in the comb and wattles and the comb is starting to grow a lip/ridge on the sides - a pullet's is more conformed to the head at this age