Blue Laced Red Wyandottes X Gold Laced Wyandottes with a Buff Orp Kicker

[Doug Hodges]

Ive been reading all morning and the more I read, the more confused I get. I like the BLRW's and the GLW's. I also like the Buff Orpingtons. I currently have a BLRW roo with my GLW and Buff Orp hens.

Will I get BLRW's and GLW's from the crossing of the Wyandottes? I want to raise the BLRW's and the GLW's. Will breeding them together mess up the coloring? I read that the only difference in them is the blue gene. Is that true?

Also what will I get from the Buff Orp hen and the BLRW Roo? Will I get Blue Laced offspring?

The reason for these questions is that I want to raise them all together if possible and remove the Buff Roosters from the flock leaving only the BLRW Roos and the GLW Roos. The Buff Orp's are the wild card and I like them because of their broodiness. Put 10 eggs out there and they are sitting.

The genetic pages confused the heck out of me. Will I be able to sex any of these bird by color? I have tons of questions so lets get this party started.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Will pics help?

And here are some of the crosses.

 

[crested1990]

If you cross blrw with glw you will get roughly half blue and half black laced. the color of the feather other than the lace will be a mix between red and gold. all chicken colors are a modified version of red and black, meaning gold is a modified red and the red of the blrw is a red with a modifier which intensifys it. when you breed blrw you have to hand select the darkest red and get rid of the lighter ones. the red will get better over time if birds are kept that have good red. They call it a rufus modifier when talking genetics, which essentially is a "fine tuning" modifier that allows for different shades of red and gold. Im breeding them myself and have studied months to figure this all out.

 

[Doug Hodges]

If you cross blrw with glw you will get roughly half blue and half black laced. the color of the feather other than the lace will be a mix between red and gold. all chicken colors are a modified version of red and black, meaning gold is a modified red and the red of the blrw is a red with a modifier which intensifys it. when you breed blrw you have to hand select the darkest red and get rid of the lighter ones. the red will get better over time if birds are kept that have good red. They call it a rufus modifier when talking genetics, which essentially is a "fine tuning" modifier that allows for different shades of red and gold. Im breeding them myself and have studied months to figure this all out.

Ive been reading and reading. I appreciate it. Im thinking on keeping only BLRW roos and letting everything run together. Ive bought eggs from several people that had birds from the Foley line. The blrw and the glw's are fine looking birds.

 

[crested1990]

foley has a good line, thats were my roo is from and im raising glw from cackle to cross him with to start developing a line myself.

 

[crested1990]

minifluffsrabbitry.weebly.com/wyandotte-chicken-color-genetics.html this is an awesome page for genetic info

 

[Doug Hodges]

Thanks. From what Im reading, It looks like I will lose some of the reds and golds if I mix them.

 

[crested1990]

youll have to develop both lacing and ground color (red)

 

[PandorasKitten]

I just acquired a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte roo and will be getting one each Silver and Gold Wyandotte Hens. What will my subsequent chicks be? I'm not familiar with genetics and while I read the weebly site with the genetic info, I'm still very confused.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Over the silver laced you'll have sex linked females will be blrw males will be yellow laced with red leakage. Mixing with glw messes up the mahogany modifier and it puts too much brassiness in the hackles that is hard to breed out.