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Now I have a question of my own. Hopefully some one can help me with. My birds are bout 20 weeks old. But none of the hens have even been in the nest boxes. I would have thought they would have at least explored it some time in the last 3 months. They all free range all day & put them selves to bed at night. (Better than my kids.) And let themselves out in the morning. They love to scratch in the dirt but I have not seen anything like nesting at all going on. Is all well?

Oh yea, & here is one of the still too young cockerels.


And, by the way, they have started to eat. A month ago they ate about 50 pounds a month. Now they eat about 75 pounds every 2 weeks and they free range all day long. They have really started to put on the weight since I started adding rolled oats, black oil sunflower seeds & a little cat food.
 
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Now I have a question of my own. Hopefully some one can help me with. My birds are bout 20 weeks old. But none of the hens have even been in the nest boxes. I would have thought they would have at least explored it some time in the last 3 months. They all free range all day & put them selves to bed at night. (Better than my kids.) And let themselves out in the morning. They love to scratch in the dirt but I have not seen anything like nesting at all going on. Is all well?

Oh yea, & here is one of the still too young cockerels.
[URL]http://inlinethumb56.webshots.com/48247/2793338490010715302S600x600Q85.jpg[/URL]

And, by the way, they have started to eat. A month ago they ate about 50 pounds a month. Now they eat about 75 pounds every 2 weeks and they free range all day long. They have really started to put on the weight since I started adding rolled oats, black oil sunflower seeds & a little cat food.

Based on where the birds are from they might not lay until 8-9 months of age. At 20 weeks they are still are still far being finished out in growth. A wyandotte is a bit different should eb a slow growing and slightly slower to mature but will maintain a good rate of lay for years to come.​
 
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You should make one cause I have some SLW I would post.

A lot of the chatter on this thread is about SL Wyandottes. You certainly can post here. Frankly, I don't plan on following another thread but I do like reading about SL, etc.
 
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Difference between the 2 is BLRWs have (mostly) the Mahogany gene which intensifies the colour, plus blue gene that dilutes the black lacing to blue. Basically you'll get Black Laced Reds and Blue Laced Reds from this cross.

With a SL roo over BLR hens you'll get pullets looking like violet laced silvers and black laced silvers though possibly the mahogany will leak, and will have to be bred out if you wanna go in that direction. The roos will have gold & mahogany leakage, and will also have either blue or black lacing. Personally I like regular SLWs better than the violet laced, as I like the contrasting better - to me the violet laced look a bit washed out.

With a BLR roo over SL hens you'll get Blue Laced Red and Black Laced Red pullets, roos same as above.
 
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Difference between the 2 is BLRWs have (mostly) the Mahogany gene which intensifies the colour, plus blue gene that dilutes the black lacing to blue. Basically you'll get Black Laced Reds and Blue Laced Reds from this cross.

With a SL roo over BLR hens you'll get pullets looking like violet laced silvers and black laced silvers though possibly the mahogany will leak, and will have to be bred out if you wanna go in that direction. The roos will have gold & mahogany leakage, and will also have either blue or black lacing. Personally I like regular SLWs better than the violet laced, as I like the contrasting better - to me the violet laced look a bit washed out.

With a BLR roo over SL hens you'll get Blue Laced Red and Black Laced Red pullets, roos same as above.

I saw a pic of the violets, I think if you work on the color that you can improve it.
 

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