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I am crossing like this with a super colorful WTB and a splash Ameraucana that lays nice sized blue eggs and really well. The cross got me a cockerel that is gorgeous with a beard and muff. Keeping him. About to hatch some more to try for females. I also crossed the WTB with Marans and Olive...

Yes it is. He is the best dog! Me too

she grew out of it. I got her a companion Great Bernese and he's still young and doing some bad things too. She ignores chickens now. We waited it out. :)

Speckled Sussex are impossible to sex sometimes. I purchased 2 pullets that were completely different as chicks, as they developed, and even look different as adults. The hen that was the weirdo and I was SURE she was a he - turned out to be a gorgeous broody mama that can hatch out and raise...

Update I took the WTB/OE with black/white mottled chest in the second picture. He's grown into a gorgeous rooster and he's only a little grumpy - easy to handle and likes to be held. Love him. I have a broody hen who hatched out babies from the WTB/OE and several hens... they have grown out...

I remember. And yours look nice. That's why I tried them.

Perfect. I just bought my first breeder stock. 4 BCM straight run chicks that hatched from #8 eggs. Their dad is a rooster with plenty of copper - not excessive tho- and from #9 egg line. I got 2 with bigger combs and 2 with smaller. The wings were also distinctly different. Hoping to get both...

I just picked out 4 Ameraucana splash or blue chicks for a friend based on that theory. I have read when people breed splash to splash it washes out the flecks.

Does that determine what breeding program the darker splash came from and whether it would breed well with black copper? It's kind of like the mossy butt on my golden cuckoo.. I feel like she needs to be put with black to improve the contrast. I probably know just enough to be dangerous.

Thanks! My son (6) says she is always flashing her big dark eyes at us and flirting. The WTB/OE rooster she's with does not give her enough attention and she is always vying for the attention of a SLW cockerel. He's penned with his own kind, but my son says Splash has a big crush on him. LOL...

I have one almost a year old. She is big and beautiful with black flecks and she knows it. Always flashing her big dark eyes at me or the roosters... she never gets enough attention. Mine lays a decently dark egg too. About 5 on the scale. She's not fast but looks goofy running towards me. I...

The Polar vortex is brutal where you are. Whoa

My "blue" splash - she's from Meyer - has plenty of black flecks and dark legs. She was not white as a chick - she was BLUE. I have seen other splash chicks that are white and I was growing one out that was white with pink legs, but dogs got it. I only have 1 splash and 1 blue copper. The splash...

Got it. Good deal. The blue splash is the only one then that I'm not sure where to put.

Plan 1: Breed BCM to SOP - keep separate Plan 2: Breed wheaten - keep separate Other side project options that utilize BCM #9 rooster and Wheaten rooster to improve egg color in my other different hens... "work with what I have!' My ????s Golden cuckoo hen x BCM rooster = barred males but...