The Wyandotte Thread

[Makomd]

The better the lacing the better, but some will still come through. The BLRW might leave you with lots of chicks with the blue genes in it. I would check to see if the owner has pictures of the roo as a chick or especially with any females as chicks. Might really help with identifying what E locus the chick down is based on and how practical it would be for the project.

Good luck.

 

[DMRippy]

The better the lacing the better, but some will still come through. The BLRW might leave you with lots of chicks with the blue genes in it. I would check to see if the owner has pictures of the roo as a chick or especially with any females as chicks. Might really help with identifying what E locus the chick down is based on and how practical it would be for the project.

Good luck.

I have black LRW too. I will call him tomorrow and ask what he looked like as a chick and what it will cost me. Sounds like an easy cross..... I guess I would keep the pullets and breed those back to dad and they should start autosexing that second gen.....

 

[Makomd]

They could be autosexing in that sense but there will be a lot of variety still. I would take the best barred boy cross them back to laced females to get complete lacing and then breed back the offspring to each other.

If you check out the calculator there are a lot of varieties that could come out of it, but also a lot of chicks to be hatched. Depends on what you are looking for though the laced Wybars the trick is the lacing and avoiding the incomplete lacing where possible. But like the Golden Cuckoo Maran it is autosexing based on chick down males are lighter (double barring) and males darker (single barring) on the E^R, eb works the same way.

It all really depends on the make up of that roo. I would really try to find out as much as I could about him.

Being barred and a Wyandotte would have saved me a my first cross and I would likely have pure Wybars by now, instead waiting for spring for some pures to hatch and another year before they lay.

 

[DMRippy]

They could be autosexing in that sense but there will be a lot of variety still. I would take the best barred boy cross them back to laced females to get complete lacing and then breed back the offspring to each other.

If you check out the calculator there are a lot of varieties that could come out of it, but also a lot of chicks to be hatched. Depends on what you are looking for though the laced Wybars the trick is the lacing and avoiding the incomplete lacing where possible. But like the Golden Cuckoo Maran it is autosexing based on chick down males are lighter (double barring) and males darker (single barring) on the E^R, eb works the same way.

It all really depends on the make up of that roo. I would really try to find out as much as I could about him.

Being barred and a Wyandotte would have saved me a my first cross and I would likely have pure Wybars by now, instead waiting for spring for some pures to hatch and another year before they lay.

I will see what he says.... I am looking for a chipmunk striped chick with a head spot if he can remember. anything else I should ask about?

 

[Makomd]

Not that I can think of. Good Luck could be a nice find in and of itself. Don't hear of Crele Wyandottes often at all.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Not that I can think of. Good Luck could be a nice find in and of itself. Don't hear of Crele Wyandottes  often at all.

Man, you two may as well be speaking a foreign language . At least you seem to understand each other. It's all double Dutch to me.

 

[DMRippy]

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I am just faking it.... don't understand it all either. I know JUST ENOUGH to go by a roo and start a project.... LOL. I pick up a little here and a little there and don't try to take it all in....

When I NEED to KNOW I study that one thing till I TOTALLY get it. Like barring.... I had a crash course in barring and sex linking and everything related all at one time.... that was easy after the light bulb went off.... and that helped with other stuff too. I don't know all the secrete code talk but I get the jest of it. I read a little when I want to work on a project. Use the chicken calculator and see what it says.

I just found out that bantam genes are sexlinked.... that throws a clinker in some plans but I can work with it now that I KNOW it is sexlinked.

Some breeders want to really KNOW genetics and some don't... they just have been doing it so long they KNOW what will happen.

 

[wyandodo]

@Makomd

Are there any pictures of your Wybar project?
Would like to see how they look.

 

[Makomd]

@Makomd

Are there any pictures of your Wybar project?
Would like to see how they look.

Gold Pullet

Silver Pullet


cockerel carrying Gold and Silver S/s

Pictures are about a month old and the hens seem to have lightened up a little more.
All are single barred at this point, but with the next cross should get some of the double barred males I need to be autosexing.

You can see some of the barred only males and females in the background and maybe some incomplete laced birds as well. All the Solid birds were culled.

 

[wyandodo]

I really like the lacing-barring pattern!
Don't you have a thread where we can follow the project?
Do you still want them to look like Wyandottes or is the autosexing the most important thing?
I am looking forward to your updates