Wyandottes

Our gold laced Wyandottes are truly stunning! They are one of our favourite colours and one of the original colours we had. Our laced gold line are the best layers in the Wyandottes. The gold laced are fully our original line and have been separate from our blue laced gold since 2023. 

Blue laced gold was our other original colour. They are slightly better layers than the gold laced and are better shape. We plan on using hens from these guys to improve the laced gold lines as they have been the best we have bred. 

We started off with a breeding quad of splash laced gold back in 2021 (we had always bred gold laced to blue laced gold prior) but these birds were terrible quality and all but the rooster was scrapped. We will be breeding them separately again in the 2025 season. They will be our worst laced gold birds as the splash dilutes the gold and lacing but we will have better birds added in later on in the season as pullets mature and the show quality birds are put into the group.  

Our blue laced reds we started off breeding in the 2024 season after serval years at trying to create them from the blue laced golds without much luck. They are the worst quality out of our large Wyandottes but are good layers and have the genetics in the flock to produce much better birds. 

Our silver laced are the best quality laced Wyandottes that we have. We started breeding them in 2021 and selected birds from three lines, each line had either size, shape or good lacing. Our flock now is pretty good however due to their popularity we still have some non show quality birds that we will replace this season. They aren't as good layers as the laced golds but aren't far off. 

Our blue laced silvers are a recent addition. They are excellent quality with size, shape and lacing being top notch. The flock will consist of a blue laced silver boy of 1x blue laced silver hen and some of our silver laced hens so expect 40% or so plain silver laced when purchasing their eggs. 

Our whites are by far the best quality large Wyandottes we have. They are extremely large, excellent feather density, perfect shape and nice combs and colour. They aren't very popular though so we will mostly breed them for quality and for adding into other colours to improve their lines. 

Our white bantams are another show quality line which we have been breeding since early 2024. Most come out with perfect shape and colour. These are on of our show breeds so eggs are limited.  

Our red bantams are another one of our favourites.  Purchased in mid 2024 they are still a work in progress and a lot of rubbish pops out but the breeding trio we have are pretty decent quality. They are great little layers. 

To create our black Wyandottes we will be using a nearly to standard hen from the white line over  a Barred Wyandotte rooster. 25% of their offspring should be black males which will be bred back to the black hen. From there all that will be left to do is get their legs yellower. 

To create our blue Wyandottes we will be using a nearly to standard hen from the white line over  a splash Orpington rooster who is more Wyandotte shape. This will also increase the feather density of the line. This will produce 100% blue birds and from there we will select the most to standard rooster and breed back to the black hen. From there we will hopefully only need to get the legs yellow.  

To create our splash Wyandottes we will use splash birds that are bred from the blue line. We may separate them off at an earlier date as the splash may help with the yellow legs, otherwise they will be separated off once we have bred to standard blues. 

To create our buff Wyandottes we will be using a buff Orpington rooster that is more Wyandotte shaped over a mucky, nice quality buff laced Wyandotte. We should be able to get yellow legged birds in the second generation and we should only need to work on selecting full buff birds, better shaped and darker buff from the offspring. 

To produce our barred Wyandottes we may be lucky enough to get some barred hens to add to our rooster. Otherwise the black x barred cross will give us 25% barred hens. These will be used back over the barred rooster and hopefully will be to standard. 

To create our Columbian Wyandottes we are using a to standard white Wyandotte hen over a rose combed light sussex rooster. The rooster is only too long and has pink legs, so in the second generation we should get 25% columbian birds if we breed the first generation birds to each other and 25% yellow legged. From then we will just breed for shape as they will already be large birds. 

We had an absolutly stunning and nearly to standard lavender rooster that was a cross but unfortunately he passed away late last year. We were left with a isobel cuckoo hen though which has the lav gene. She will be bred to a black rooster once we have them then those offspring bred back to each other in hopes to produce a lavender pair. These hopefully won't need much work done to them once we get lavender. 

Another cross we got what was a Wyandotte type hen with a lavender based and faint silver lacing. She will be bred to a black laced silver rooster and then those offspring bred to each other. 25% of them will be lavender laced and from then on we will breed them back to silver laced then back to the lavender laced each season to improve lacing and shape. 

We already have a two standard cuckoo hen so we will be using her across our barred rooster to see if we get more cuckoo (might get 25% if we are lucky) otherwise we will breed her to a black line rooster once we produce them. 

When we were dropping off some roosters at our rooster guys place one time we came across these guys. They appear to have been someone elses project birds but Millie fleur Wyandottes would be pretty cool! We plan on selecting hens with rose combs tis first cross and the from there we will work on shape and non feathered legs.