Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[berkeleysprings]

gebbs i love to see pictures of yours , wheaten marans are not very popular compaired to bc . the bc thred has around 15 faithful people that post on black copper thred
wheaten has 3 lol just not much to talk about in wheaten world but iif u have pictures please post , i dont care much for the ad of blue wheaten to the thred and i have zero learning on blue wheaten
but im not in charge


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[snowbird]

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Randy, I added the Blue wheaten because I thought it would ad more comments to the thread. There is no way they will let us have a thread for each variety.

 

[Lotsapaints]

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Randy there are many of us that read this thread I have Wheatens in the oven again hoping that the postal service hasn't fixed me up again.....I think Blue Wheatens are very pretty in the pictures I've seen but for now I'm just going to try and have some Wheatens I love the size and shape of the eggs I have now if a few will hatch. I wish you were closer I think your culls are pretty nice....

 

[Illia]

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Hi Don,
Does anyone have blue wheaten pictures to post?
Joe

I did at the beginning of this thread.

 

[knjinnm]

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Hi Don,
Does anyone have blue wheaten pictures to post?
Joe

I did at the beginning of this thread.

OK, so re-post them for the benefit of new commenter's to view even though there are some on the first page.

Joe

 

[Illia]

My Blue Wheaten boy (covering all my Wheatie girls - Sadly my only Blue Wheatie girl died. She was gorgeous, and went broody instantly after laying her first several eggs, but, I didn't get a single egg - She went broody off in the back of the pasture in a burn pile, then got taken away one rainy night) He's a nice guy, but the future generations will certainly have less white fluff, more breast, and less "color" in the chest. (orange) He's not as broad as my best Black Copper (recently passed away

) but I think his long, tall body is what makes him appear thinner. I've got a hen for that though!

 

[knjinnm]

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Hi Illia,
Thanks for re-posting pictures of your blue wheaten rooster.
So, what do you get using a blue wheaten on a wheaten hen? Which is dominate?
Thanks,
Joe

 

[Illia]

It works the same as blue and black.

Blue x Black = 50% blue 50% black


Blue is dominant, however blue as a color is only one allele for the blue gene. Splash is homozygous though, having both. Splash x black = 100% blue. Otherwise, blue and black = 50/50.


So, same goes with Wheatens. And Blue Wheaten x Blue Wheaten = 50% blue wheaten, 25% normal or splash wheaten.

 

[berkeleysprings]

well i hope your hatches go well and i wish u were closer also , everyone that comes to visit gets a free complamentry roo or even driving buy slow il chuck a roo atcha
for free. i didnt mean to stir up illwill about the blue wheatens , they are lovely birds . in a few months i will be parting with some hens as well . i have nbeen trying to hatch as many as possable but i always get 7 out of 10 are roosters and some very nice people fropm down the street have been getting alot of eggs from me form my 6 adult hens
and right now i have 6 young pullets to ad in once i see how they feather out and egg color . 12 is all i want going in to next winter . i have 8 eggs due to hatch sunday wch means 7 roos and a hen lol

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Randy there are many of us that read this thread I have Wheatens in the oven again hoping that the postal service hasn't fixed me up again.....I think Blue Wheatens are very pretty in the pictures I've seen but for now I'm just going to try and have some Wheatens I love the size and shape of the eggs I have now if a few will hatch. I wish you were closer I think your culls are pretty nice....

 

[VillageChicken]

My best pullet at the time, three months.