What chickens : colors make blue laced red wyndottes.

[Gatorbait1986]

I’m fascinated by wyndottes . What chickens produce blue laced . I have golden laced , silver laced and blrw .

 

[The Moonshiner]

To make blue laced red you need to use blue laced red.

 

[nicalandia]

Anytime I hear of an outcross, it bothers me.

Even within Breeds?

Also the Blue Laced Gold seem to be a thing in Australia

https://lacedwyandotte.wordpress.com/blue-laced-gold/

https://bluelacedgold.wordpress.com/

 

[The Moonshiner]

With another blue laced red.

 

[nicalandia]

With another blue laced red.

If he has a Blue Laced Red rooster and a Golden Laced hen. If he Cross them 50% Will be Blue Laced Redish due to red enhancers boosting the gold to a Redish tone

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya but "reddish" isn't exactly red and then those won't breed true for true blue laced red either.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I personally wouldn't breed to the silver.
You'll still have the same issue with the red whether bred to the gold or the silver. Breeding to the silver will bring in the silver gene which would need bred out. Breeding to the gold at least has gold which the red also needs.
Its best to stay as close as possible to the color youre wanting so you don't have to breed out genes.

 

[nicalandia]

Diluted genetics.

Not ay all, just lacking homogeneity on the red enhancers

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not ay all, just lacking homogeneity on the red enhancers

I guess you are right. But I don't work with a common breed like Wyandotte. I probably have at least 50% of all the Black Penedesencas in North America. So anytime I hear of an outcross, it bothers me.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Also the Blue Laced Gold seem to be a thing in Australia

It's "a thing" here in the US also, but that's because people cross Blue-laced Reds with Gold-laced. A true Blue-laced Red Wyandotte should have the mahogany gene that makes the red an actual red, and not a gold. Many of the BLRW I see now, versus the ones I bred fifteen years ago are not correctly colored.

These birds:

http://www.foleyswaterfowl.com/blue-laced-red-wyandottes.html

...are what Blue-laced Red should look like. If you're breeding BLRW and getting the Black-laced Reds and that red looks gold, then they aren't true BLRW to me.

I wouldn't cross in additional colors. BLRW are much more common now (although quality birds are not) so it shouldn't be too difficult to cross them to the correct color.