The Wyandotte Thread

[feathersnuggles]

Carmen, my 39 week old Blue Wyandotte, laid her first egg today! This is the girl:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3443386#p3443386

 

[sewingca]

Thank you, Nava. I love their little personalities. I was just reading a thread about co-existing with nature. These kids are confined to a chicken-wire fenced wooded area and I like to sit with them and offer treats. They are such fun!

 

[Humhill]

I am lovin' this thread!! I had planned on getting some Wyandottes, SL and GL. But now that I've seen the BLR...

Gotta have some! I'm THINKING about maybe showing one day, so I want to get some nice ones. UGH, I can't wait to get my coop built!!

 

[cedar post]

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Nice looking hen I've been trying to improve on the lacing on my blues. They lay like crazy for me.

 

[feathersnuggles]

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Nice looking hen I've been trying to improve on the lacing on my blues. They lay like crazy for me.

Thanks cedar post! Glad to know she'll be a good layer... she took long to begin.

Yours are more beautiful with their lacing. Maybe yours are also more blue? My girl is really more of a silver-gray color, when you look at her in sunlight. She's a hatchery bird, so not laced.

 

[El Naked Neck]

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can't wait till these eggs go out for auction.
come on katy share those beautifull eggs

 

[KDH]

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Totally in love with your funky chicken pick - I even saved it for my desktop to show people.

 

[KDH]

I'm so excited! I have 10 GLW ordered to arrive in early March (20 actually, but a friend is taking 10 and I'm taking 10). I can't wait! This is our maiden voyage into chickens.

So, here's a newbie question. If one has GLW hens, and crosses them with, say, a BL or SL rooster, are the resulting chicks purebred or mutts?

 

[CelticMoon1]

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They're still pure wyandottes. SLW roo over GLW hens will yield SLW female offspring and male offspring that are split for gold (They look like bad SLWs with reddish/yellow bleeding in hackle feathers). I

much about BLR genetics, but I know you *can* breed GLW with BLRW. I *think* the problem is you'll get a weaker colour and it's desirable with a deep red colour in BLRWs...

Feel free to expand & correct anyone

 

[Bantimna]

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They're still pure wyandottes. SLW roo over GLW hens will yield SLW female offspring and male offspring that are split for gold (They look like bad SLWs with reddish/yellow bleeding in hackle feathers). I

much about BLR genetics, but I know you *can* breed GLW with BLRW. I *think* the problem is you'll get a weaker colour and it's desirable with a deep red colour in BLRWs...

Feel free to expand & correct anyone

You are quite right on that one