What does a splash Wyandotte look like?
The Splash Laced Red Wyandottes are beautiful chickens that have a laced color pattern which is mahogany/red in color with light grey around the edge of every feather. Similar to the Blue Laced Red, Splash is the lightest shade out of the blues. This chicken makes an excellent pet and is good for eggs and/or meat.
What is a splash Wyandotte?
Splash Wyandottes are essentially incomplete Black Laced Red or Blue Laced Wyandottes. (we breed Blue Laced Reds here on the farm to get better quality birds so they are sold as unsexed only.) The Wyandotte is a dual-purpose breed, raised both for eggs and for meat.
How do you get splash Wyandotte?
When mating blue to blue, you can get some idea what the chicks will grow up to look like by the color of their down. The darkest chicks will be black laced. The palest chicks will be splash. Chicks with down that’s between the darkest and the palest will be blue laced.
What is a blue laced red Wyandotte?
Blue Laced Red Wyandottes The Wyandotte chicken is an American breed of chicken developed in the 1870s. The Blue Laced Red Wyandottes are beautiful chickens that have a blue laced red color pattern which is buff/red in color with a blue that looks just like grey around the edge of every feather.
Are blue laced red wyandottes broody?
Because of their docile nature, they are a good choice for first-time farmers. Another benefit related to getting Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chickens is that the laying hens are naturally broody and will eagerly care for both eggs and baby chicks.
What color eggs does a blue laced red Wyandotte lay?
brown eggs
Mature Blue Laced Red Wyandotte’s lay brown eggs and are medium in size with the deep – round -Wyandotte appearance.
What color eggs does a blue laced Wyandotte lay?
How big do Blue Laced Wyandottes get?
QUICK STATS
| Type: | standard |
|---|---|
| Leg Style: | clean |
| Leg Color: | yellow |
| Male Mature Weight: | 8.5 lbs |
| Female Mature Weight: | 6.5 lbs |
Which is the prettiest blue laced Red Wyandotte?
The Blue Laced Red Wyandotte is perhaps the prettiest Wyandotte. So here’s an article on this beautifully marked bird just for those who think it’s ‘the bomb’. In this article we discuss the history of the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, its disposition, egg laying ability and if it’s the right hen for your flock.
Which is better blue or Red Wyandotte chicks?
Blue (violet) is the most stunning and therefore the most sought-after lacing color. However, a blue bred to a blue will produce only 50% blue laced red Wyandotte chicks. Another 25% will be black laced red Wyandottes and 25% will be splash laced red Wyandottes.
What’s the difference between blue and splash Wyandotte?
Unlike blue bred to blue, which yields only 50% blues, splash bred to splash yields 100% true splash chicks. But, Jeff cautions, breeding splash to splash over successive generations will result in the lacing eventually becoming too light to the point of appearing white.
What’s the original color of a Wyandotte chicken?
It has roots in the Brahma, Hamburg, and Cochin breeds. It was developed as a dual-purpose breed that could lay well. The original color was the Silver Laced. The APA-accepted colors of Wyandotte for Large Fowl (non-Bantam size) as of 2017: The blue laced red feathers of the BLRW are something of a rarity among chicken breeds and colors.