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Splashes
Paul:
I\'m interested in helping with the splash project. We have worked with splashes for several years now. I\'d have to check back records for a date. The best blues that we have ever produced have been out of splash and black matings. Our blue cockerel which was BV blue at the Sedalia national is out of a splash pullet mated to a black cockerel. Our # 10-05 Ameraucanas, are out of black pullets and a splash cockerel. They are some of our best blues from 2005 hatch. One of our 2006 breeding pens contains black and splash sisters (blues sisters have been sold) mated to a splash cockerel. This will be our first time to mate two splash which will produce only splash. The blue pullets were sold out of these so I would know that the splash chicks which hatch from this pen will be out of the 2 splash pullets that are in the pen. Blue mated with splash will produce both blue and splash.
I hope others will help with this splash project. Beth Collier raises splash also. Both showed one at the Lucasville, Ohio national meet in 2003. Lisa Cree is also working with splash.
Guest:
I am woefully ignorant of procedures for any of this, but if someone is willing to babysit me, I\'m in.
Blue Egg Acres:
--- Quote from: John ---I\'ve always felt splash is a very attractive variety, but since they weren\'t recognized I haven\'t breed for them
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Same here. I don\'t have the black/blue splashes, but do have the large fowl splash wheaten and have used them on a limited basis to produce blue wheaten. I\'ve wondered why they aren\'t recognized. Any chance we might have them recognized at the same time as the blue splash?
John:
--- Quote ---Any chance we might have them recognized at the same time as the blue splash?
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Not that there is anything wrong with splash wheaten, but I don\'t think there would be enough breeders interested in breeding them. If the breeders are interested then there is nothing to stop you. There aren\'t any real development programs needed for either variety since they can be bred from show quality blues and blue wheatens. Again I would help if you find enough interest.
I\'m personally leery of getting new varieties recognized just to have a bunch of them and then not have enough interested individuals in continuing to breed and show them in the future.
I\'ve never liked the fact that blues don\'t breed true and that is one reason I prefer lavenders to blues and have started to breed them. I\'ve joined in on the black gold project for two reasons. First to help the members get them recognized that want them recognized and second is to push thru the LF version at the same time, just because I would like to see the same varieties in both Ameraucana breeds.
Just some of my thought,
Guest:
I would be very interested in working to get the Splash Blue Wheatens accepted. I realize it would take five years, and since this is my first year I might not be able to help (are there others out there who are working with them?)
I have a lovely SBW pullet I hatched from eggs from Barbara, she\'d be fabulous to show, and I\'ve heard from long-time Dutch breeders (where we also work with the Andalusian blue genetics) that some of the best blue birds come out of Splash hens.
So, count me in!
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