Shawnee Oklahoma South Central District Meet Report 2014

[John]

three wheaten hens from a splash wheaten cock X wheaten hens that we raised.  The three hens now all look like splash hens instead of blue wheaten.

I think you mean "Three blue wheaten hens" in the first line and "splash wheaten hens" in the 2nd.

[Mike Gilbert]

    Our #+4-2014 wheaten breeding pen consist of a wheaten cock from John Blehm and three wheaten hens from a splash wheaten cock X wheaten hens that we raised.  The three hens now all look like splash hens instead of blue wheaten.  Any ideas as to why?

Paul, as you know, you couldn't get wheaten hens out of a splash wheaten cock, so I assume you meant a blue wheaten cock.   So you must have meant the #4 breeding pen was a Blehm wheaten male over three blue wheaten females you raised?    So the three blue wheaten females now look like splash wheaten?   

[Paul]

Sorry there was a typo it is suppose to be blue wheaten.

[Mike Gilbert]

I guess you will have to test mate those three females with a blue wheaten male to see if they are splash or blue wheaten.   If you get any wheatens from that cross, you will know they are truly blue wheaten in spite of their current appearance. 

[Maggie Maier]

Thank you Paul for all the photos. It is great to see so many pictures in one place

[Paul]

Your welcome!

[Paul]

My apologies to Jeff and Cheryl Vance, the BV and RV splash pictures are Jeff & Cheryl Vance birds not Peggy Taylor.

Sorry for the mistake.

Angela corrected it.

[Paul]

  They are definitely blue wheatens.  They had blue in both their tail and wing feathers, and their father is a splash and mothers are wheatens out of wheatens.  Their new tail and wing feathers (after molt) are white!

  The pen has been kept the same for 2015.  If we come up with a good blue wheaten cockerel this fall we will mate them that way for 2016.  We have two breeding pens of wheaten X splash wheaten for blue wheatens only, six breeding pens of wheaten to wheaten for wheaten only, and nine breeding pens of wheaten X blue wheaten for 50% of each.  We didn't set-up any blue wheaten X blue wheaten or splash wheaten X blue wheaten so we will not have any splash wheaten in 2015.  We increased our breeding flock in an attempt to keep the four GQF cabinet incubators filled!  After a few years of laying back-we've gotten serious again about breeding Ameraucanas!  LOL!