Blue Laced Red Wyandottes

Now this hen loves her rooster

I am really happy with my great Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. This variety of Wyandotte is relatively new and came to the United States from England a short time ago. I was able to get my stock from an outstanding breeder in Oklahoma, Mr. Bill Braden. Mr. Braden told me that he had purchased his first birds from a lady in Axe, OK who had obtained her birds from the McKinney-Govero Line.  Mr. Braden then purchased a rooster from Mr. Gregg Catt of Colorado, and crossed the females he had obtained from Axe, OK. to produce the Bill Braden Line of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. I feel fortunate to perpetuate the Braden Blue Laced Red Wyandotte gene pool. 

This rooster is 99.9% perfect - hes molting in this pic

 It is said that the original development of these beautiful birds came from crossing Silver Laced and Golden Laced varieties of Wyandotte's. After much work the Blue Laced Red was developed from this cross. The blue gene will color the chicks either light blue or dark blue in the lacing (the area around the reddish colored feathers) in both the baby chicks and the mature birds. 

I have 3 different ranges of blue

Therefore you may have birds that vary somewhat in appearance but still display the beautiful colors of this very rare and unusual chick. Mature Blue Laced Red Wyandotte's lay brown eggs and are medium in size with the deep - round -Wyandotte appearance. There are three different Blue Laced Red Wyandotte colors, Blue, Splash and Black Blue. Below is the breeding chart to follow when breeding the different blues.

Sorry I'm molting, get back with me in the spring and I will rock your world.

 If you mate: 

Blue  X Blue = 50% Blue . 25% Black , 25% Splash

Blue  X Splash  = 50% Blue , 50% Splash 

Blue X Black = 50% Blue, 50% Black

Splash X Black = 100% Blue  

Black X Black  = 100% Black 

Splash X Splash = 100% Splash

What a BLR Wyandotte should look like......

ROOSTER

MALE COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Bright Red. 

BEAK: Horn shading to yellow at point. 

EYES: Reddish bay. 

HEAD: Plumage, rich mahogany bay, each feather having a medium blue stripe tapering to a fine point near it extremity. 

NECK: Hackle—web of feathers lustrous medium blue with a narrow lacing of rich mahogany bay, uniform in width, extending around the point, shaft mahogany bay. Front of neck—same as breast. 

BACK: Rich mahogany bay on surface. Saddle—rich mahogany bay in appearance, with a medium blue stripe through each feather, laced with rich mahogany bay, conforming to shape of center, the medium blue stripe having a long diamond-shaped center of rich mahogany bay. 

TAIL: Main Tail—Medium blue. Sickles and Coverts—Lustrous, medium blue. Smaller Coverts—Medium blue with diamond-shaped centers of rich mahogany bay laced with rich mahogany bay. 

WINGS: Fronts—Medium blue with rich mahogany bay centers. Bows—Rich mahogany bay. Coverts—web of each feather rich mahogany bay, with narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue, forming a double bar of laced feathers across wings. Primaries—Medium blue with lower edges rich mahogany bay. Secondary—Medium blue lower half of lower webs, rich mahogany bay with narrow medium blue edging wider at the tip; upper webs edged with rich mahogany bay. 

BREAST: Web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue .

BODY AND FLUFF: Body—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue. Fluff—medium slate. 

LEGS AND TOES: Lower Thighs—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue conforming to edge of feather Shanks and Toes—yellow. 

UNDER COLOR OF ALL SECTIONS: Medium slate, shading to mahogany bay at base.

I am almost done molting, and when I am, I'm drop dead gorgeous.

 

HEN

COMB, FACE, WATTLES AND EAR-LOBES: Bright Red. 

BEAK: Horn shading to yellow at point. 

EYES: Reddish bay. HEAD: Plumage, rich mahogany bay. 

NECK: Rich mahogany bay in appearance, each feather medium blue with a narrow lacing of rich mahogany bay. Shaft, mahogany bay. Front of Neck—same as breast. 

BACK: Web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue. 

TAIL: Main Tail—Medium blue. Coverts and Lesser Coverts—rich mahogany bay, laced with medium blue. 

WINGS: Fronts, Bows and Coverts—web of each feather rich mahogany bay with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous medium blue. Primaries—Medium blue with lower edges rich mahogany bay. Secondary—Medium blue lower half of lower webs, rich mahogany bay with narrow medium blue edging wider at the tips; upper webs edged with rich mahogany bay. 

BREAST: Web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue. 

BODY AND FLUFF: Body—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue. Fluff—medium slate. 

LEGS AND TOES: Lower Thighs—web of each feather, rich mahogany bay, with a narrow, sharply defined lacing of lustrous, medium blue to conform to edge of feather Shanks and Toes—yellow. 

UNDER COLOR OF ALL SECTIONS: Medium slate.

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