The Wyandotte Thread

[colegf2003]

Jacobs cave swap meet

 

[colegf2003]

I ordered some blue laced red Wyandotte bantam eggs. Hope for a good hatch

 

[DanaeRose]

Hey there, I am having issues with a broody. She is almost 2 and this is her first brooding, but she refuses to sit ON eggs. I left her in the coop to make sure is was a genuine episode, cuz she had a change of heart earlier in the year and only lasted 3 days, but she always sits in boxes that DON'T have eggs. I will put some eggs under her and recheck a few hours later or the next morning and she will have moved....... so I put her in my garden away from the nesting boxes to hopefully break her brooding cuz she is not doing me ANY good......

. Has anybody ever experienced this?

 

[blackgum]

well after 3 years i guess their ok just thought i would share some pics have 20 hens under 5 roos they are large wyandottes

 

[blackgum]

oh well be selling eggs pretty soon

 

[NanaKat]

Hey there, I am having issues with a broody. She is almost 2 and this is her first brooding, but she refuses to sit ON eggs. I left her in the coop to make sure is was a genuine episode, cuz she had a change of heart earlier in the year and only lasted 3 days, but she always sits in boxes that DON'T have eggs. I will put some eggs under her and recheck a few hours later or the next morning and she will have moved....... so I put her in my garden away from the nesting boxes to hopefully break her brooding cuz she is not doing me ANY good......

. Has anybody ever experienced this?

Try putting a fake egg in each nest box. This will force her to sit on at least one egg. At a week, try moving in a couple more of the fake eggs. If she accepts them, then you could try real eggs.

 

[mother of many]

I have a breeding question. So first of all my Laycee who started off as a pullet then was believed to be a cockrel isofficially a pullet. As her adult feathers have become more established she is proving to be a female with a large comb. Anyways I am looking in to getting Blue Laced Reds and was wondering if I put her in with them she would just produce a darker version of the BLRs correct? Also I was debating whether I should get a Silver Laced rooster to go in with them. I love the BLRs but I esp love the lighter variations. Would placing a silver roo over them produce the lighter coloring? And finally could it be possible to have 2 roosters in with all of them? Or should I make a solid decision between the BLR roo and Silver Laced roo?

 

[colegf2003]

You can have two roosters. And I don't know if this is true but I have heard that a golden laced crossed with a blue laced red makes a sex linked Wyandotte. I am not sure if that is true but it is what I have heard.

 

[dfr1973]

I have a breeding question. So first of all my Laycee who started off as a pullet then was believed to be a cockrel isofficially a pullet. As her adult feathers have become more established she is proving to be a female with a large comb. Anyways I am looking in to getting Blue Laced Reds and was wondering if I put her in with them she would just produce a darker version of the BLRs correct? Also I was debating whether I should get a Silver Laced rooster to go in with them. I love the BLRs but I esp love the lighter variations. Would placing a silver roo over them produce the lighter coloring? And finally could it be possible to have 2 roosters in with all of them? Or should I make a solid decision between the BLR roo and Silver Laced roo?

The BLRWs have a separate thread just for that variety. I recommend reading and learning the specifics of the blue lacing there. The genetics of the blue is a bit "funny" in that it is an incomplete dominant following basic Mendelian inheritance. The short version is when crossing two blues, you (statistically speaking) get a 1:2:1 ratio of black:blue:splash lacing.

My mentor tells me the taller rose combs are a sign the bird is carrying the recessive gene for single comb. I'll be putting that to the test once I have another hen go broody. I am doing test breedings to single combed sex-link pullets, as the single comb gene is also a simple Mendelian inheritance. If my cockerel with the taller comb throws half single comb chicks, then that will confirm.

You can have two roosters. And I don't know if this is true but I have heard that a golden laced crossed with a blue laced red makes a sex linked Wyandotte. I am not sure if that is true but it is what I have heard.

The lacing color is autosomal, not sex-linked. To my understanding, crossing a GLW with a blue BLR will yield a 50/50 black and blue, with either gold in the center or brassy red/orange (gold leakage). I am using black phase BLRs with my GLWs for size, and the BLRs have the gold leakage (which frustrates the breeder, but makes it a lot easier for me).

 

[colegf2003]

Thanks. Someone told me that at a swap and did not know if it was true or not.