Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[flgardengirl]

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Illia would be the best person to answer this question.

Berkley: I hope some babies come early and then you can post pics. I love when they are a@ the yellow, fuzzy, and cute stage.

 

[nivtup]

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Yes, mix away.

You will get Wh and BL Wh

It is all good

 

[flgardengirl]

Oh cool. I didn't know you had blue wheaten marans, nivtup. Did you create your own or did you buy them from someone? Have any pics. The only blue wheaten marans I've seen so far are Illia's.

 

[jeremy]

I will have Blue Wheatens in the springtime.

I can't wait!

 

[Illia]

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You can put them in the same pen. Blue Wheaten x Wheaten makes a 50/50 of Blue Wheaten and Wheaten. This rule goes for ANY "blue" variety of bird. Blue duckwing, copper, pencilled, wheaten, laced, etc.


I believe nivtup got his/her birds from the same stock I got most of mine - Cree Farms. They got theirs from Bev Davis.

From there, I've been working on getting (and still am) Wheatens from other breeders to improve the Blue Wheatens, using my one cockerel.

 

[snowbird]

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Yes, mix away.

You will get Wh and BL Wh

It is all good

Why in the world would you breed Bl. wheaten and Wheaten in the same pen unless you only wanted Bl. Wheaten. If you are breeding Wheatens you sure do not want Bl. wheaten mixed in with them. That is what is screwing up all the colors the way it already is with Marans. If you just want dark eggs go ahead and mix them anyway you would like. I just can not believe all the mixed up junk that will be showing up.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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You can put them in the same pen. Blue Wheaten x Wheaten makes a 50/50 of Blue Wheaten and Wheaten. This rule goes for ANY "blue" variety of bird. Blue duckwing, copper, pencilled, wheaten, laced, etc.


I believe nivtup got his/her birds from the same stock I got most of mine - Cree Farms. They got theirs from Bev Davis.
From there, I've been working on getting (and still am) Wheatens from other breeders to improve the Blue Wheatens, using my one cockerel.

That's actually pretty funny...I'm getting mine from Lisa Cree! Bev gave me her email today.

 

[cpartist]

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Yes, mix away.

You will get Wh and BL Wh

It is all good

Why in the world would you breed Bl. wheaten and Wheaten in the same pen unless you only wanted Bl. Wheaten. If you are breeding Wheatens you sure do not want Bl. wheaten mixed in with them. That is what is screwing up all the colors the way it already is with Marans. If you just want dark eggs go ahead and mix them anyway you would like. I just can not believe all the mixed up junk that will be showing up.

Don, the Wheaten/Blue Wheaten mix works like any Blue/Black/Splash variety.
Mixing them does not screw up the colors

 

[Illia]

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Exactly what I was thinking. . . If someone wants a Bl/Black breeding, let them do it. There's no other way to do it except Bl/Bl or Splash x Black

Messing up colors is doing things like breeding cuckoo x black copper without genetic experience, or breeding wheaten x black copper, or golden salmon x white or something. . .

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Yes, mix away.

You will get Wh and BL Wh

It is all good

Why in the world would you breed Bl. wheaten and Wheaten in the same pen unless you only wanted Bl. Wheaten. If you are breeding Wheatens you sure do not want Bl. wheaten mixed in with them. That is what is screwing up all the colors the way it already is with Marans. If you just want dark eggs go ahead and mix them anyway you would like. I just can not believe all the mixed up junk that will be showing up.

Snowbird...you've got to do better than that. For those of us just learning, you should put some explanation in with it so we can understand. Also, if what you are saying is true, by breeding Blue Wheaten with Wheaten will create more Blue Wheaten, I don't see how that is mixing them up.