Author Topic: Blue Wheaten Cockerals  (Read 2236 times)

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Blue Wheaten Cockerals
« on: July 17, 2009, 10:02:36 AM »
I have two blue wheaten cockerals for sale.  They are 7 weeks old, friendly and healthy.

I would like $5 but willing to make trade for other items...eggs, crafts, homemade items, feed, ect...

All good natured, healthy and hatched from nice blue eggs (I have shell samples if intersted).  I also vaccinated them for mareks when they were day olds.

Pick up only....Binghamton, NY unless you can teach me how to mail them.

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Blue Wheaten #1 Thier legs are starting to change to the standard slate color.
Blue Wheaten #2

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Blue Wheaten Cockerals
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 01:32:10 AM »
I think \"1 \" is a better looking bird of the two but I don\'t see how you think the color of the legs are going to change? Isn\'t that a sign of an E.E. bird.

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Blue Wheaten Cockerals
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 09:08:28 AM »
They are purebred.  I got them from a reputable breeder.  The leg color gets darker as they get older.

Mike Gilbert

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Blue Wheaten Cockerals
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2009, 05:35:02 PM »
The wheaten gene inhibits dermal melanin.  Wheaten chicks are hatched with pinkish or yellowish legs that change color over time as they get older.   That said, some get darker than others.   I too like cockerel number one, but color is really hard to judge at that age, as wheaten cockerels go through a coloring metamorphosis as they age.