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Sorry,,, I bought 2 black laced silver pullets. I was wanting to breed 1 flock back to Blue Laced Red and I'm just gonna see what is interesting of the culls I thought I've never seen a blue barred bird ?Oh, those pullets are not Silver Laced. I see that several of us made a wrong assumption. Pictures definitely help
Those pullets look like Splash (as in, Splash all over, which is a genetically black chicken with two copies of the blue gene.)
I think the rooster looks like Splash Laced Red.
Crossing those splash pullets to the rooster will probably give just splash chicks, looking like their mothers. There is a chance of the chicks having leakage of red or gold in their feathers as they grow up (most likely in the breasts of daughters and the shoulders/wings of sons.)
The solid blue pullet should produce almost the same chicks as the splash pullets, except that half of her chicks will be blue instead of splash.
Gentically:
When considering just the blue gene, splash x splash = splash.
Blue x splash = half of chicks blue, half of chicks splash.
When considering the other genes, crossing a solid black chicken to a laced chicken will usually give a solid black chicken. So the chicks will have the genes for solid black, carry but not show the recessive genes for a laced pattern, and will have their "solid black" diluted to blue or splash.
