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Splash wheaten coloring

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Don:
My guess is that it is residual color from the lacing on Blue Wheaten as well.  Lacing or Edging is desired on the BW variety and since the Splash Wheaten is derived from this color it will probably be fairly consistent in the offsping.  If SW/SW is mated for several generations the colors will likely dilute further.  Does anyone have any pictures of birds that don't have the coloring in the breast?

Sarah Meaders:
Yay!!! Thanks for your thoughts, Don!!!!

DeWayne Edgin:
Don I used to but I lost them pictures when my last phone broke. I also had a Facebook page that had his picture on it but I removed that page a good while back. I know it's no help now.

Jim if you are using a smartphone to post on the forum here, Google an image resizing app. I use one just for this forum when I want to post pictures on here. You can just resize a picture and save it in your gallery and then come here and post it. It's been working for me. Lol

Peggy Taylor:
My three Bantam cockerels have very little to no red ticking in the breast and definitely no shafting. My large fowl cockerel is another matter. Ive got to make some good pictures of his breast area to see just what's going on with him.

My bantam blue wheaten hens have extremely clean bodies with almost no ticking while my large fowl blue wheaten hens do continue show some minor ticking although I have selected away from it for several years. So I am about to come to the conclusion that this ticking "may" express different in the bantams than it does in the large fowl. The blue wheaten males in both the bantams and large fowl have very nice lacing for the color.  Just food for thought as we go along on this project.

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