Whiting True Blue from McMurray

[ackie]

You have to keep checking. All throughout the week there will be times where things become available. They usually last for a few hours. Annoyingly, just get in the habit of checking once daily. The system automatically updates throughout the day

the biggest days are Monday three weeks before hatch when they set eggs, sometimes they release extra availability based on that. Also that entire week leading to the Monday two weeks before hatch is when people are cancelling orders.

Good luck!!!

thank you! they confirmed what you said. I asked about ordering for late april and then maybe "moving my order up" so to speak if I found them with earlier availability and they said that would be doable. so....

now I just need to decide how many birds I want
and then how many is reasonable


my original thought was 25 minimum so
12 WTG - 11 female 1 male
13 WTB - 12 female 1 male

but idk

 

[ackie]

a benefit of waiting would be a lower minimum. I'll have to check what day it switches over.

then I could do 15 min instead, still half and half with one male of each

 

[jolenesdad]

If anyone has FB dr Whiting did a really interesting q&a with the FB breed group for WTB and it’s full of a lot of great info.

mine of my favorite things he says is “the whiting true blue is essentially a high production leghorn... with colorful plumage, a pea comb, and the blue egg gene.”

also, the whiting true green does NOT breed true. It is a first generation hybrid.

 

[ackie]

If anyone has FB dr Whiting did a really interesting q&a with the FB breed group for WTB and it’s full of a lot of great info.

mine of my favorite things he says is “the whiting true blue is essentially a high production leghorn... with colorful plumage, a pea comb, and the blue egg gene.”

also, the whiting true green does NOT breed true. It is a first generation hybrid.

oh that is great to know! maybe I'll just do wtb then

 

[ackie]

mine of my favorite things he says is “the whiting true blue is essentially a high production leghorn... with colorful plumage, a pea comb, and the blue egg gene

@black_cat keeps insisting I get leghorns and I keep telling her... these ARE leghorns
hahaha

 

[ackie]

also, the whiting true green does NOT breed true. It is a first generation hybrid.

sorry for not putting all my replies in one post hahah

so... it not breeding true

that would mean some have more characteristics of one or the other parent breeds that went into making WTG

since green eggs are a brown layer x a blue layer, the combo cant have started from leghorn like WTB, I would think...

do you know what breeds went into this cross?

 

[ackie]

okay I found one mention that wtg started with an RSL ISA brown

 

[jolenesdad]

sorry for not putting all my replies in one post hahah

so... it not breeding true

that would mean some have more characteristics of one or the other parent breeds that went into making WTG

since green eggs are a brown layer x a blue layer, the combo cant have started from leghorn like WTB, I would think...

do you know what breeds went into this cross?

The WTB line had a mutation with a straight comb and not pea comb and all linked to the red coloring. Whiting now maintains that mutation line separate, purely as a parent line for the WTG.

whiting selected a pail brown commercial egg layer, he isn’t specific on breed so I imagine it’s close to ISA Brown or similar.

the WTG cross is a first generation hybrid of the pale layer and the WTB mutation line. They have only one blue egg gene.

 

[ackie]

The WTB line had a mutation with a straight comb and not pea comb and all linked to the red coloring. Whiting now maintains that mutation line separate, purely as a parent line for the WTG.

whiting selected a pail brown commercial egg layer, he isn’t specific on breed so I imagine it’s close to ISA Brown or similar.

the WTG cross is a first generation hybrid of the pale layer and the WTB mutation line. They have only one blue egg gene.

okay so ... does this mean they will lay either green or brown? (brown gene from commerical layer and either yes/no blue gene from wtb mutation?)
I'm actually curious from a breeding standpoint what would need to happen for me to further the development of the line
like... obviously not breeding any of the hens that lay brown because they wouldnt* have a blue gene... but I guess it's impossible to tell if the roo has the blue gene or not

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I'm considering these. Allegedly they lay large blue eggs, are "best" layers and can free range.

Does anyone have thoughts on this breed, hatchery or specifically this breed from this hatchery?

I'm not sure yet how many I would order. I'm aware of their minimums.

The only reason I chose McMurray is that they sent us a catalogue so I'm not locked in on that if somewhere else is way better.

Anyone know their sexing accuracy? I'm not fussed about extra roosters in terms of having them but I'd prefer to not pay extra for girls and end up with boys, yknow.

Anyway. I've never ordered from a hatchery before so I'm all ears.

I ordered 1 WTB, 1BO, and 1 LB from them last year, they were all healthy 4 week old pullets. They are all 21 weeks old now and only my BO it's laying so I can't speak for the eggs yet. Betty is very curious, free ranges like a beast, and is friendly. Only bad thing I can say, which really isn't bad, is because they are so light they are great fliers. I clipped her wing so that is solved, lol.
... they will also refund your money for a pullet if it ends up being a roo.