The Wyandotte Thread

[DMRippy]

Hey guys, thanks for all the advice.
The rooster pushes her away from food and chases her first thing in the morning but otherwise pays no attention and she happily follows him around. My hen does pick on her a bit though. Today was her firstday making adult chicken noises but no crow.
More pictures as requested. Couldn't get a very good upright one.

Cockerel

 

[gladahmae]

I'm wondering how early you can tell color on blrws as far as blue vs splash. I've got 4 chicks with my broody and I'm leaning toward 3 splash and 1 blue right now, but I don't know if its still waaaaay too early to make that call. They are between 7 and 4 days old.

 

[Texasmja]

I do not see any splash chicks.

I'm wondering how early you can tell color on blrws as far as blue vs splash. I've got 4 chicks with my broody and I'm leaning toward 3 splash and 1 blue right now, but I don't know if its still waaaaay too early to make that call. They are between 7 and 4 days old.

 

[gladahmae]

YAY! This is my first time with BLR, so I just figured the lighter ones would end up splash.

 

[heirloomorps]

I'm wondering how early you can tell color on blrws as far as blue vs splash. I've got 4 chicks with my broody and I'm leaning toward 3 splash and 1 blue right now, but I don't know if its still waaaaay too early to make that call. They are between 7 and 4 days old.

I see two blue, one black and one that could be black or blue (the one furthest away from the camera). None are light enough to be splash.

 

[delisha]

Hey guys, thanks for all the advice.
The rooster pushes her away from food and chases her first thing in the morning but otherwise pays no attention and she happily follows him around. My hen does pick on her a bit though. Today was her firstday making adult chicken noises but no crow.
More pictures as requested. Couldn't get a very good upright one.

Your roo would not keep her away from the food dish, he would call her to it is it was a pullet, so I vote Cockerel. It looks like a cockerel and crossed with something too. It should not have any gold in it. It should taste delicious!

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[DMRippy]

Can someone give me some advice. I have 3 HUGE white Wyandotte, 2 cockerels and 1 pullet. My question is would there be enough benefit to cross them with my chocolates to improve size? Are most WW dom white or rec white? (guessing recessive) I know I would have to do ons of test mating to remove recessive white.

Would you do it or not?

 

[delisha]

Can someone give me some advice. I have 3 HUGE white Wyandotte, 2 cockerels and 1 pullet. My question is would there be enough benefit to cross them with my chocolates to improve size? Are most WW dom white or rec white? (guessing recessive) I know I would have to do ons of test mating to remove recessive white.

Would you do it or not?

You must love love challenges. You would be brave to take on such a project.

This is just my opinion and take it with a grain of salt.

This information was gathered off the web:

Solid white varieties of Wyandotties and other breeds are regarded as recessive whites because their white is completely recessive to any other color. Both kinds of white plumage, "dominant white" and "recessive white" are phenotypically identical in adult phase, and can only be distinguished from each other by means of a progeny test. In 1906 and 1908 Bateson and Punnet] demonstrated that White Dorkings are homozygous for an auto recessive mutation which prevents appearance of color. They assigned to this mutation the symbol c, as being recessive from the normal allele (C+, chromogen) which allows normal plumage color development. This same kind of white plumage color was found by Bateson and Punnet in Rose Comb Bantam and in White Wyandotties. It was also found in White Cochins by Davenport in 1906, in White Lanshins by Goodale in 1910, in White Plymouth Rocks by Hadley in 1914,and in other breeds.
"Recessive white" chickens may be potentially black barred or of some other color pattern, but does not reveal this, unless they are submitted to a progeny test. White Plymouth Rock chickens carry a considerable mixture of genes taken from other breeds different to the original Bared Rock from which the white variety originates.

I would not for several reasons. (1 and 2)
I would shop around for a huge black/chocolate. Would be cheaper in the long run even if you paid top dollar for an exceptional roo.
(1)The feed cost alone to grow out and cull the generations would be big bucks. However, the satisfaction of completing that project would be double blessed. Only you could say it was(2) worth the money, time, emotional energy, patience, and endurance it would take.

LF chocolate Wyandottes are available even if they are rare.

 

[AlaskaGrownEggs]

Even though I have no pictures......... I will be getting some laced wyandottes. I have always loved them and just waiting to get them. These forum makes me want them even more.

 

[delisha]

Since I love Wyandottes so much, I fell in love with SLW last year at a show. The woman purchased her huge birds from..Dick. I have seen in the mean time some really outstanding SLW on here. BYC is new for me.

I have read where some can tell sex of SLW at hatch.