The Wyandotte Thread

[DMRippy]

Quote: if your goal is to improve type, i'd recommend doing it this way, even if you end up with leakage in the short term... the slw seems to overall have a better type than many of the blrw i've seen.

this is my goal with the cochins too. besides that my batch of silver laced eggs hatced 2 roos. my gold laced should be here tomorrow or wed. crossing fingers for at least 3 pullets...

What leakage would you get? The silver gene would go to the roos that you would then cull. The silver will not leak in the pullets.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: if your goal is to improve type, i'd recommend doing it this way, even if you end up with leakage in the short term... the slw seems to overall have a better type than many of the blrw i've seen.

this is my goal with the cochins too. besides that my batch of silver laced eggs hatced 2 roos. my gold laced should be here tomorrow or wed. crossing fingers for at least 3 pullets...

What leakage would you get? The silver gene would go to the roos that you would then cull. The silver will not leak in the pullets.
my plan is to build both gold and silver laced bantam cochins from what i've got... so i will probably have red leakage on the silver cockerels down the road a bit. but it's something i'm willing to deal with until i have enough birds of each variety.
edit: i should mention finding SOP silver and gold laced bantam cochins is like trying to pull hen's teeth.

 

[Miss Molly]

Last year I breed my BLRW rooster to a SL hen and a GL hen. All of the SL hens chick grew out Roosters and All of the GL hens chicks grew out Hens.
I could hardly believe it... Is this normal? I was amazed.

 

[Miss Molly]

Last year I breed my BLRW rooster to a SL hen and a GL hen. All of the SL hens chick grew out Roosters and All of the GL hens chicks grew out Hens.
I could hardly believe it... Is this normal? I was amazed.

 

[pastorwalt]

Are you sure of the maternal parentage?
the BLRW to SLW is a sex link cross
all of the hens would be red/gold
all of the roos "golden" - like silver but yellowish

 

[dracoe19]

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[Miss Molly]

Are you sure of the maternal parentage?
the BLRW to SLW is a sex link cross
all of the hens would be red/gold
all of the roos "golden" - like silver but yellowish

 

The Rooster was Actually splash would that make a difference? I guess I'm not sure what hen laid each egg.
I just Assumed all the gold came from the gold hen and all the silver came from the silver hen.

 

[pastorwalt]

The fact that the roo was splash would not make a difference
it would only mean that all offspring should have blue lacing

 

[sewingca]

I am an amateur chicken lover - I had four Wyandottes; two golden hens and two silver hens. The silver hens recently died of internal laying. I read that they are bred to be broilers and don't usually live long enough for the defective gene to appear. Were mine the exception to this fine breed? Should I purchase more silver Wyandottes? My two goldens are just fine. They were all chicks together and are about 3 years old. Looking for advice.

Thanks, all.

 

[ki4got]

Quote:

I am an amateur chicken lover - I had four Wyandottes; two golden hens and two silver hens. The silver hens recently died of internal laying. I read that they are bred to be broilers and don't usually live long enough for the defective gene to appear. Were mine the exception to this fine breed? Should I purchase more silver Wyandottes? My two goldens are just fine. They were all chicks together and are about 3 years old. Looking for advice.

Thanks, all.

the commercial broilers are the birds that typically don't live long enough for flaws to appear, because they're slaughtered before they're 12 weeks old usually... any later and they're likely to keel over from heart failure anyways.

are you referring to gold laced and silver laced? to my knowledge there aren't any inherent flaws in those varieties, other than fertility issues (read back a ways, it's been discussed)...