The Wyandotte Thread

[Countrypunk92]

Especially on a wyandotte!

 

[DMRippy]

Especially on a wyandotte!

Someone in the states posted pics of theirs awhile back. Very pretty birds. I would give up on ALL the dottes for a flock of those!

 

[wyandodo]

ame=" a blue lstartced DMRippy" url="/t/279470/the-wyandotte-thread/9210#post_12540844"]I am working on those too!

No, I might start a blue laced silver project. But I am going to start a Salmon project later this year.[/QUOTE]

How are you planning to create your salmon Wyandottes?
If you need any information about blue laced silver , it's possible that I might help, since I am reading about this for two years and breeding them since last year.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: PLEASE Share! I have a pen set up to make the Sliver laced Blues.... but so far no eggs yet. I am using Splash LRW pullets under a SLW roo. I was going to take the best looking without too much red and cross those back to SLW and go from there. I have thought about a cross of a SLW hen with a BLRW roo to make some roos but not sure that would be worth the effort.

 

[TShelton54]

Not worth the effort Donna. Best Blue Pullets from the Splash LRW hen to SLW male back to a good SLW male will get you farther.Half of the second generation should be Blue Laced Silver in both sexes.

 

[DMRippy]

Not worth the effort Donna. Best Blue Pullets from the Splash LRW hen  to SLW male back to a good SLW male will get you farther.Half of the second generation should be Blue Laced Silver in both sexes.

thanks that was the plan. now if they will just start laying.

 

[wyandodo]

The first step in making the blue laced silvers was done by another breeder.
He started with a silver laced rooster and blue laced red hens.
I don't see any problems in using splash laced red hens instead of blue laced red hens.
This way you will only get blue laced silver hens in the F1 (with gold coming trough).

Next step was putting the blue laced silver hens with a lot of gold leaking trough to a silver laced with a very good silver ground color.
The F2 hens were having already less gold leaking trough but the roosters still had entire golden wing feathers and especially in the saddle, shoulders and in the neck the gold was very dominant.

So again, you select the hens with the best ground color and as less gold as possible and put them to their father or another silver laced rooster with very good ground color.
This should provide you with good looking hens and the first descent roosters.

I continued the project with 2 flocks
1) A good looking blue laced silver F2 rooster (coming from a silver laced rooster x blue laced silver hen F1) x silver laced hens
2) A new silver laced rooster x blue laced silver hens F2 & F3

Here is a picture of the two flocks :



The ground color and the gold leaks weren't improving with the first combination.
The offspring from the second combination looked much more promising and grew up to those expectations.

Conclusion :
Keep using a silver laced rooster to improve the ground color and eliminate the gold coming trough.

This summer I accidentally had a nest when my breeding flocks weren't separated any longer and this resulted in the first splash laced silvers. I still have one hen from the end of July. To early to say wether she will stay.
The problem with those splash laced silvers is that you can't easily judge their lacing.
If the splash hen grows out nice with a good type , she can join my silver laced rooster.
Eventually an offspring of 100% blue laced silvers is very handy, although it's my opinion that the best way to get them is with a silver laced rooster and blue laced silver hens.

Keep me posted on your project!

 

[Avlana]

I would love love love some salmon wyandottes!

 

[DMRippy]

The first step in making the blue laced silvers was done by another breeder.
He started with a silver laced rooster and blue laced red hens.
I don't see any problems in using splash laced red hens instead of blue laced red hens.
This way you will only get blue laced silver hens in the F1 (with gold coming trough).

Next step was putting the blue laced silver hens with a lot of gold leaking trough to a silver laced with a very good silver ground color.
The F2 hens were having already less gold leaking trough but the roosters still had entire golden wing feathers and especially in the saddle, shoulders and in the neck the gold was very dominant.

So again, you select the hens with the best ground color and as less gold as possible and put them to their father or another silver laced rooster with very good ground color.
This should provide you with good looking hens and the first descent roosters.

I continued the project with 2 flocks
1) A good looking blue laced silver F2 rooster (coming from a silver laced rooster x blue laced silver hen F1) x silver laced hens
2) A new silver laced rooster x blue laced silver hens F2 & F3

Here is a picture of the two flocks :



The ground color and the gold leaks weren't improving with the first combination.
The offspring from the second combination looked much more promising and grew up to those expectations.

Conclusion :
Keep using a silver laced rooster to improve the ground color and eliminate the gold coming trough.

This summer I accidentally had a nest when my breeding flocks weren't separated any longer and this resulted in the first splash laced silvers. I still have one hen from the end of July. To early to say wether she will stay.
The problem with those splash laced silvers is that you can't easily judge their lacing.
If the splash hen grows out nice with a good type , she can join my silver laced rooster.
Eventually an offspring of 100% blue laced silvers is very handy, although it's my opinion that the best way to get them is with a silver laced rooster and blue laced silver hens.

Keep me posted on your project!

I had one girl but she died on me suddenly. No idea why. So I will start over. She didn't have much red leaking so I was glad to see that. I picked splash for the 100% blues. Hard enough to get projects going and then have to cull for color.

I will post pics as I go along. I really like the Blue laced Silvers. they are very pretty.

Side benefit of this project.... I don't really need a new pen. I can run Blue Laced Silvers with SLW

 

[Karen Whitfield]

Wow I'm new to all of this, I have never seen salmon wyandottes or blue lace silver I will have to Google the colors. Thanks I love reading these posts