I would be interested to know how a GLW roo over BLRW, would turn out too. Genetics are fascinating.I have been considering crossing my SLW and GLW next year once they are old enough. Have any other Wyandotte owners done this? If so, could u post pics? I'd love to see how the chicks turned out.
Thanks.
First part: the gold and the red are incomplete dominants with each other, so if you are using a true red then you will get all brassy reds, where the gold shows through. If you are using a brassy red, then that one already has the gold gene and statistically speaking you will get one brassy red and three golds per four.
First part: the gold and the red are incomplete dominants with each other, so if you are using a true red then you will get all brassy reds, where the gold shows through. If you are using a brassy red, then that one already has the gold gene and statistically speaking you will get one brassy red and three golds per four.
Second part is the blue lacing, which is also an incomplete dominant trait where the "blue" is actually both black and splash genes showing together, so a GLW will act as a black for lacing, and if the red is a blue, then you get half black laced and half blue laced (statistically speaking). If you use a splash laced red, then you will have all blue laced.
The GLW was used to create the BLRW, and in some lines can be teased back out into phenotype ... which is what I am doing with my GLW project since I have a breeder one county over who does BLRWs with great body and (to her frustration) are still brassy. I expect my first F1 chicks to hatch either tomorrow or Tuesday! So excited ... then I'll have another batch due to hatch the 22nd or 23rd, so next month I ought to have some pics when they start to feather out.
Just in case there is any doubt: I geek out on the genetics aspect of breeding.
Your little GLW cockerel looks pretty young still. Your dark blue laced pullet in the pic is brassy, so she should throw 3:1 gold:red, with half and half black and blue lacing. I would not use the splash pullet pictured, as her lacing is missing some lacing genes. There are three genes needed for the lacing pattern, and for a bird to have proper lacing, it needs to get a copy of all three from each parent. In one of my bookmark folders, I saved a link that has the lacing genes and what the feathers look like when certain ones are missing. I just don't have that chart memorized yet.I would love to see them feathered.
My first hatch were 5 blrw girls (3 splash and 2 very dark blue) and my 2nd the person threw in a surprise egg a very handsome glw boy.
I will probably have to just use these for laying and not breeding, I would need much better stock. I really wanted to hatch something locally for my first time and I only had one other pullet at the time so wanted to have some more girls for eggs. I looked up the blrw and figured they would look pretty in my garden. I found them on a local facebook site for cheap. But at least I will have pretty layers. But I find genetics fascinating. When I took my nursing exam a lot of the questions were on genetics and I aced it. But that was many moons ago. If I can find a very good cockerel. Then I might try the dark girls. But I doubt there are many good ones that people will want to part with in my neck of the woods.
Picked up this little chick at a breeder and went home to do research only to find out it's
better to pick the darker chicks when it comes to Blue Laced Red Wyandottes!
Love him/her regardless though <3
This is Cadence (we're hoping it's a she!):
