The Wyandotte Thread

[DMRippy]

SLW X Splash BLRW will make 100% blue laced silver's with red leakage. no sexlinked in that cross.

the above pics are for a BLUE she wanted to use splash so no blacks would be produced in the original question.

 

[Jtabor1387]

SLW X Splash BLRW will make 100% blue laced silver's with red leakage. no sexlinked in that cross.

the above pics are for a BLUE she wanted to use splash so no blacks would be produced in the original question.

I breed a slw blrw cross and got all roosters with red bleed through but the hen were all blue laced whites with no bleed.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

I think you're mixing us up lol. I have a blue blrw. I wanted to pair him with a slw. It looks like I CAN use the pullets from that cross to continue with blrw, and if I get a blue lace yellow and breed him back to the slw I can get blue laced silvers as well, aka violet laced, which people seem to want so I might do that as well.

 

[DMRippy]

I was on my phone and can't see everything at one time. Here is a chart it shows how gold and silver work when mating.

 

[ClovisMan]

Sorry to interrupt but....
Roo or Hen? 6.5 weeks old. Only one with waddles and pinkish/reddish comb.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Roo

 

[austinbndr28]

Sorry to interrupt but....
Roo or Hen? 6.5 weeks old. Only one with waddles and pinkish/reddish comb.

The one in the back is a rooster.

 

[wyandodo]

First time for the 24 days old red porcelain cicks playing outside.
They enjoyed it very much!

 

[dajen]

I'm hoping someone on here can help me find an article on Gold Laced Breeding. I found an article that discussed the breeding of Gold Laced Wyandottes and the benefits of using both the light gold hens and the dark gold hens. It mentioned something along the lines of that one produced your cock line and one your pullet line. Since I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of this info I need to go back and read and reread this article. Any help would be appreciated and any other info that you would suggested would be appreciated too.

 

[WyandotteTX]

I'm hoping someone on here can help me find an article on Gold Laced Breeding. I found an article that discussed the breeding of Gold Laced Wyandottes and the benefits of using both the light gold hens and the dark gold hens. It mentioned something along the lines of that one produced your cock line and one your pullet line. Since I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of this info I need to go back and read and reread this article. Any help would be appreciated and any other info that you would suggested would be appreciated too.

Here's a reprint of an old article:

SINGLE vs. DOUBLE MATING
from The A.B.C. of Breeding Poultry for Exhibition, Egg-Production and Table Purposes

1919

WHAT IS SINGLE MATING?
In certain breeds the standard decrees that the characteristics of the male and female should be different, which necessitates double-mating, explained below. Where the standard for the two sexes is practically the same, then single mating is sufficient. By single mating I mean the breeding of both sexes as exhibition specimens from one mating or single pen of birds.

WHAT IS DOUBLE MATING?
Double-mating means the mating of two pens, one to produce exhibition cockerels and the other exhibition pullets. This process of breeding has done much to spoil many good old breeds, for few little men have accommodation sufficient to keep two pens. Many poultry fanciers give this double-mating question some hard knocks, but we have only the Club Standards to blame. When a new breed comes into being, the first desire of the faddists is to draw up a standard that is hard to breed to. They contend that it is better to have a breed that is difficult to obtain high-class specimens of, than where we can easily breed winners. As things are at present, double-mating is necessary in many breeds, and I leave it at that.
In the case of laced varieties, such as the beautiful Gold and Silver Laced Wyandottes, we have perforce to adopt the double mating principles. If we mated the Palace winning Cock to the Palace winning Pullet we should breed birds that were of very inferior quality. By fitting up a cockerel-breeding pen and a pullet breeding pen our chances are excellent. In the cockerel-breeding pen of any variety the male will be a tip-top show specimen and his mates females that are not show birds, but merely breeders likely to throw high-class cockerels when mated to the exhibition male. The pullets from this mating will, of course, be "duds” and not fit for show purposes. The females in the pullet-breeding pen will all be first-class exhibition birds and the male not a show bird, but a breeder most likely to breed tip-top exhibition pullets. The cockerels from this mating will be "duds" and unfit for the show bench. The whole modus operandi can be thinned down to this: The cockerel-breeding male must possess all the necessary characteristics to breed exhibition cockerels, whilst the pullet breeding male must boast of those characteristics that will go to breed exhibition pullets. The system is not so complicated as it would appear at first sight and is interesting to follow out, but there must, of course, be many "wasters" in the progeny whether male or female respectively. In many cases fanciers are satisfied with breeding one sex only and winning honors with same. They specialize in pullets or cockerels, keeping the pullet-breeders or cockerel-breeders only as the case may be. This naturally does not entail so much work as would be necessary if the two sorts were bred.

What I have used in most of my double matings follows this formula. For exhibition males I use the best colored male that I have and breed him to females that are somewhat darker in color because if you use lighter colored females the male offspring will be too light in color with incomplete lacing in their breast. For exhibition females I usually use the lightest colored male on the best colored female, if you use an exhibition male onto these females you will get a greater amount of mossiness in the lacing in the tails of the females. I raised Golden Laced bantams for many years and had a predominantly male line. I had fantastic looking males but the females always had a greater amount of the darker color and mossiness in their tails. I have seen Laced cockerels that have a greater amount of lacing on their wings produce very good females as well. Almost every multi-colored variety in Wyandottes needs to be double mated. I tried for years to single mate some of the varieties without much success. Does that mean it cant be done? Of course not, I was just not successful at it when I tried it. My Silver Penciled bantams are a male line but I am developing a female line with selected birds that fit the bill.
Maybe this will help you out. There is not a ton of information out there about double mating besides the old Wyandotte Standard. All I can share is my own experiences, good and bad.