Will they all be Blue-Black-Splash?

[lomine]

I have a Blue Ameraucana rooster and his son, a splash EE cockerel. In my first attempt at hatching chick eggs I got two EE cockerels, a blue and a splash. I recently hatched out 5 more chicks. One looks like it will be another dark blue and the other four look light blue. The lighter ones do seems to be developing some interesting wing feathers. I have been playing around with the chicken calculator to see what kinds of colors I would get with the hens/pullets I have. It seems like every option I pick I end up with only BBS chicks. (I know I only get splash if the hen carries a blue gene too.) I want to hatch out some fun colored EEs but now I am wondering if I'll only get BBS chicks.

So my question is, are there any colors of hens I could add that wouldn't produce BBS chicks?

 

[AlleysChicks]

So I have a Blue Andalusian Roo and I have mostly black or barred hens. But I do have a Buff Orp and her chicks seem to break the mold of BBS. But I've only managed cockerels from her eggs.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I guess you know how blue works?
No blue gene equals black
One blue gene equals blue
Two blue genes equals splash
Blue is a black modifier. It will work on the black of any patterned birds too.
Since your splash has two copies he will pass one blue gene to all his offspring. The blue rooster will pass a blue gene to half his offspring and the other half will not get a blue gene.
Problem is they are both on extended black. Extended black is dominate to most color/patterns so most all your chicks from the cockerel will be solid blue they may get leakage when adults.
You rooster will mostly throw solid black or solid blue chicks. Also may get leakage.

 

[lomine]

I have a couple of BOs too and at least a couple of the newest hatch should be their offspring. I hope they aren't all cockerels. They have patterns on their wings already so I don't think they'll come out solid blue.

My Am does have leakage and the blue EE cockerel I butchered had it too so I know that's there. I probably wouldn't have kept/breed him because of that but he has a wonderful personality and I'm not breeding to standard. I want a colorful egg basket but I'd also like a verity in the hens. You said extended black was dominate over most colors. So is there a color it's not dominate over?

 

[AlleysChicks]

I have a couple of BOs too and at least a couple of the newest hatch should be their offspring. I hope they aren't all cockerels. They have patterns on their wings already so I don't think they'll come out solid blue.

My Am does have leakage and the blue EE cockerel I butchered had it too so I know that's there. I probably wouldn't have kept/breed him because of that but he has a wonderful personality and I'm not breeding to standard. I want a colorful egg basket but I'd also like a verity in the hens. You said extended black was dominate over most colors. So is there a color it's not dominate over?

Here's the cockerel I kept. He was hatched on Easter. I had hoped for a pullet but I knew early on that it wasn't meant to be.

When you said about the wing pattern I wanted to show you these.
All pics are of the same bird. Just a bit of time between.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I just saw you said the cockerel was an EE. What was his mother?
Do you know if your rooster had soild colored parents?

 

[lomine]

Alleys, your cockerel is handsome. Interesting colors.

I don't know about the roosters parents. I got them from a small hatchery through a small feed store as Blue Ameraucana and was told I could get BBS chicks so I assume they were all Blue. The rooster and hens I got from the same place have lacing if that makes any difference.

The EE cockerel was hatched from my Splash Laced Red Wyandotte. The one I butchered was also from the same hen. Here's a picture of the two of them.

Here is the Splash one a few days ago. He's a little over 5 months. He has lacing all over his chest.

Here are a few pictures I took this evening of the current batch of chicks. Sorry if they are a bit dark, I was in the barn. The dark one is from the same Wyandotte and looks solid colored right now. The others are either from BO or Delaware eggs.

 

[lomine]

I thought I'd share an interesting development. The eggs I've been incubating have started hatching and one of them is all yellow. Its from either a Buff Orpington or Delaware egg. I'm going to guess the dad is the Splash EE. Here's some pictures from straight out of the incubator.

 

[AlleysChicks]

It looks like a EE chick I hatched at Easter! She's all white with black/blue spots now. I hope it turns out to be a pullet for you!​

 

[Akrnaf2]

I have a Blue Ameraucana rooster and his son, a splash EE cockerel. In my first attempt at hatching chick eggs I got two EE cockerels, a blue and a splash. I recently hatched out 5 more chicks. One looks like it will be another dark blue and the other four look light blue. The lighter ones do seems to be developing some interesting wing feathers. I have been playing around with the chicken calculator to see what kinds of colors I would get with the hens/pullets I have. It seems like every option I pick I end up with only BBS chicks. (I know I only get splash if the hen carries a blue gene too.) I want to hatch out some fun colored EEs but now I am wondering if I'll only get BBS chicks.

So my question is, are there any colors of hens I could add that wouldn't produce BBS chicks?

Blue is the Heterozygot conditions of the gene BL
BL/ BL -SPLASH
BL/bl- blue
bl/bl- black
If you do punet tabel of 2 blue you will get 1/4 splash, 1/2-blue, 1/4-black. It is only a statistical odds.