Wyandotte hatching question

[Koggecritters]

I have a black laced gold rooster over 1 gold laced hen and 3 blue laced red hens. Ive hatched 2 batches of 10 chicks all black laced gold. Why am I not getting any blue laced? Cackle Hatchery chickens if that matters.

 

[nuthatched]

That's how blue, black splash genetics works, you might get a blue or two if you have larger hatches but the black with make up the bulk.

 

[Koggecritters]

That's how blue, black splash genetics works, you might get a blue or two if you have larger hatches but the black with make up the bulk.

I'm adding more blue hens and blue roos this year, but I thought I had a 50 percent chance of blue laced from my blue hens? I have plenty more chickens to add roosters just fyi. I only hatch the wyandotte eggs though.

 

[Amer]

Bad luck
Theoretically should get 38 percent blue laced if all your hens laid the same amount of eggs.
But it looks like you didn’t.

 

[Koggecritters]

Yeah that was more what I was thinking. I'm going to increase my odds by adding only blue

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Black over blue should give you half and half
Ive bred two blues together and was getting nothing but blues and splashes finally got a few blacks this year