The Wyandotte Thread

[cgriff22]

Can someone tell me if my GLW is a roo? I have 2 and they have very different combs. I can't find a picture of any GLW with such a distinguished comb... I hope they are both hens but not sure.... They are 4-5 months

 

[dan26552]

Can someone tell me if my GLW is a roo? I have 2 and they have very different combs. I can't find a picture of any GLW with such a distinguished comb... I hope they are both hens but not sure.... They are 4-5 months

They are both hens, the one looks like it has a single comb instead of a rose comb. A male would be patchy like this

 

[Ontario chick]

My firs love are the Columbian Wyandottes, but I must say the Blues are growing on me, here is a Splash Rooster with 3 of his favorite Blue ladies.

 

[dfr1973]

My firs love are the Columbian Wyandottes, but I must say the Blues are growing on me, here is a Splash Rooster with 3 of his favorite Blue ladies.

They look lovely to my eyes. I'd like to get into buffs, blues, and silver penciled after I get my gold laceds going well.

 

[wyandodo]

My firs love are the Columbian Wyandottes, but I must say the Blues are growing on me, here is a Splash Rooster with 3 of his favorite Blue ladies.

Your rooster shows how awesome a splash bird can look like!
Beautiful flock!

 

[Ontario chick]

Thank you, I was somewhat reluctant to use the Splash as a flock sire, but his type was so much superior to any Blue cockerel I produced that year, I took the risk, and got some very good offsprings from him, including some very nice Blues.

 

[wyandodo]

Do you happen to have the offspring on photo?
Will you be using some of the splash hens you got this year, in future breeding flocks?
I am very interested in other breeders experiences with blue.
In breeding the blue laced silver Wyandotte bantams , the best results were with a silver laced rooster over blue laced silver hens.
Now the plan is to breed blue jubilee Wyandotte bantams.
I was planning on using a jubilee rooster over blue marked hens every year, but I might just try something else the next few years.

 

[Ontario chick]

Here is a group of 10 week olds from this year.
If I consider each color (Blue Splash & Black) separate Variety, then my Splash over Blue hens was an F1 outcross, that produced some red hackle leakage in Blue cockerels and silver hackle leakage in one of the Blue pullets. None of these birds were used for breeding.
F2 (Splash over the darkest Blue hens) which is this batch produced surprisingly good coloring, they are 3 month old now and no hackle leakage at all.
There are couple of choices now, either I will take one of the Blue cockerels and breed back to his dams, to see if I can recombine the Blue in to good true breeding Blue with no leakage.......
or possibly just repeat the F2 if these birds continue to develop well.

 

[wyandodo]

@Ontario chick

Looks like you got enough cockerels to choose from.

How about the leg colour with your blue Wyandottes?
The blue cockerels show yellowish-greyish legs, but the one blue hen seems to have a very dark leg colour.
Would love to see the remaining flock after your last selection was made.

I really like those splash Wyandottes!

 

[myhenSunrise]

I have been considering crossing my SLW and GLW next year once they are old enough. Have any other Wyandotte owners done this? If so, could u post pics? I'd love to see how the chicks turned out.