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Breeding Blues and Blue Wheatens

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Paul:
Wanted to keep them together.  Don\'t know how this happened when it was moved from the ABC Sharing Place.

far149:
I was reading recently in another breed\'s forum about splash breeding and it raised question in my mind about Ameraucanas. I don\'t recall the breed I was reading about but someone there cautioned against too frequent breeding of splash to splash. This person said this tended to wash out the \"blue/black\" in the offspring after several generations. Has anyone experienced this in Ameraucanas or is it even a concern?

What are we looking at as the color standard for our splashes? Or are we not to that point yet in having the color recognized?

John:

--- Quote ---someone there cautioned against too frequent breeding of splash to splash.
--- End quote ---

Aaron,
I don\'t have experience with it, but I don\'t think it is so or maybe that is not what they meant.  It seem to me that splash to splash would be the way to get good splash birds, just like breeding black to black to get good black birds.
Maybe they were talking about the best matings to produce good blues.

far149:
John:

I finally remembered where I read the comments about splash breeding. It was on the Cochin club\'s forum. Below are quotes from two different individuals about Cochins.

\"I talked to the judge at Crossroads about the placing of Splash birds trying to understand. I know the lighter colored birds did not place as well as the darker ones. He comment was that the color was just too light/washed out on some birds of good type.\"

Second quote: \"The SOP for Splash is Slaty blue and white that has a faint bluish gray tinge. The undercolor s/be slaty blue and sooty white.

If you keep breeding Splash to Splash, you will wash out the Slaty Blue. Hence the recommendation to breed back to Blue or Black as needed. I would make sure if breeding back to Black that it is a B/B/S Black, and not a (regular) Black.\"

It seems to me that you would be correct, John. I don\'t think good colored splash birds mated to each other would have washed out (light colored) progeny.

Cloverleaf Farm:
I too have read that several times, that if you breed splash to splash the offspring will get lighter, and for better color on the splashes they should be bred to blue...

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