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Laced Blue Ameraucana
heatherscooby77:
This is the best pic I could get. I will keep trying to get a better one. He is a Blue AM rooster X Silver Laced Wyandotte.
John:
The thumbnail is clearer than the enlarged version. I think I do see what you are calling speckles.
Thanks,
heatherscooby77:
For some reason I cannot get it to save while it is reduced. I have done this for several other pics. It just isn't working for this particular one. So basically you can see that its a creamy golden color. So I won't be using him????????? I really want to work on this project. I am not sure I know enough about it yet??? I am just going to keep meticulous records. I will have a lot of research and reading to do this winter, before setting up next years breeding pens!
grisaboy:
--- Quote from: heatherscooby77 on September 10, 2012, 11:17:34 PM ---So basically you can see that its a creamy golden color. So I won't be using him?????????
--- End quote ---
If your objective is to get back to a solid blue (laced) bird, It shouldn't matter if it silver or gold or cream. This should be covered by the blue color in future generations. You would want to eventually get rid of all silver or gold leakage and hopefully just keep the lacing.
Were any of the F1 (SLW X blue Am) blue? (with or without the speckles?)
In the next generation you would want to go F1 X F1.
But at least one of the F1's should be blue so you can carry the blue color through to the next generation.
Curtis
heatherscooby77:
I do have a blue hen. I also have some chicks that hatched last week. They are out of my splash rooster x SLW hens. I will be very interested to see how they will feather out. When they hatched they had correct blue and splash down.
I am not going to use the golden speckles for the project. I have a black rooster without the speckles, and I am liking him more. As of right now. I am going to keep all of them for a while. I need to do my research. Thanks for the info. It is so appreciated!
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