The Wyandotte Thread

[Duramaxgirl]

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those Birchens! What a beautiful project! Nice job.

Here are pictures of my Birchen Wyandottes in progress. I've also included a few pictures of the Blacks and the Blues.
Please offer comments both critical and pointers. I
I don't show so am looking to work toward the SOP and maintain a nice looking healthy flock.

Two F1 cockrells saved for breeding..I like the one on the left better but the tail on the one on the right is nicer. Both are about the same age 8 - 9 months

another picture of them



Birchen hen, she is the oldest and is laying now. The sun is bright on her in this picture.

Same hen in different light


The F1 Black hens are beginning to lay too


Black and a Blue checking out the brooder room


Black Pullet and a Blue behind her These are about 16 - 18 weeks old


Older Blues



Another picture of the same two girls

Younger pullet 16 - 18 weeks

 

[NanaKat]

Quote: Thank you. Definitely will keep folks posted on their progress. I know these are not 100% but right now they do appear to be headed in a nice direction.

In addition, the F1 Blacks and Blues that came from the breeding between the CW roo and the Blue Wyandotte hen will be bred back to the roo to produce F2. I'm going to keep what Birchens and BCW that come from that breeding to work on a 100% Birchen Wyandotte and a Blue Columbian line.
I already have two nice BCW hens from the first cross and will breed these back to the CW roo . I have not been able to get a BCW roo yet.
Of course, this means more rotational breeding and more grow out pens....and more record keeping...

 

[Texasmja]

Thank you. Definitely will keep folks posted on their progress. I know these are not 100% but right now they do appear to be headed in a nice direction.

In addition, the F1 Blacks and Blues that came from the breeding between the CW roo and the Blue Wyandotte hen will be bred back to the roo to produce F2. I'm going to keep what Birchens and BCW that come from that breeding to work on a 100% Birchen Wyandotte and a Blue Columbian line.
Of course, this means more breeding and grow out pens....and more record keeping...

Does anyone know if the Columbian is the silver gene or white? Can white be covered and recessive? Like I said earlier my SLW roo over red sexlink hen produced chicks that look like Columbians. Now that means his silver gene must be at work on them.

 

[Texasmja]

Has anyone bought Duane Urch's Columbians? I have some ordered for next year.

 

[pastorwalt]

Does anyone know if the Columbian is the silver gene or white? Can white be covered and recessive? Like I said earlier my SLW roo over red sexlink hen produced chicks that look like Columbians. Now that means his silver gene must be at work on them.

Columbian gene is separate from silver or white so you can have either silver or gold columbians Silver is Sex linked. Roosters can be SS (silver) s+s+ (gold) or Ss+ (golden)
Hens have only one male sex chromosome and will get their silver or gold gene from their father
red sexlinks are a genetic crapshoot but you can predict that pullets from a SLW roo will be Silver. There is dominant white and there is recessive white. I don't think it's relevant here.
SLW are columbian plus pattern gene and melanotic
Check out the chicken calculator:
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
it will answer a lot of questions

 

[jockeyeba]

What do ya'll think is my roo a GL or a black laced? He's 6 months old, got him & his "sister" at 2 weeks old

 

[Bleenie]

The second picture looks like a black laced red, he's very pretty!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: typical columbian (white base with black markings) is silver based. the red-based would be like the buff columbians in cochins (but redder). don't know if wyandotte has that variety or not.
white can hide a variety of mutations, since it removes all black pigmentation, so the only way to know for sure what a white carries would be to cross it with something else. black/blue/splash are dominant, so would probably override the varieties hidden by white.

 

[Countrypunk92]

That roo is Black laced Red, But the difference in his primary feather color and his other deeper red color might be a problem, I am not sure, maybe Ki4got could clear it up, She knows genetics. LOL


But he is very pretty none the less, And You could show him as golden lace I think. And I do not think he is the brother or sister to the other, unless the parent stock has brassyness or goldenlaced birds in it...But still the difference in the color of red or gold is great...

If you bred them, Might darken the coloring, I tend to like the color darker, but thats just me.

 

[Countrypunk92]

Lord, My Dotte boys are finding their manly side.. but my Chocolate roo is dancing to the wrong gender...