I haven't heard this before and I would like to know more. I have Grant Brereton's 21st Century Poultry Breeding book. I don't remember reading that. I will look again.Ontario Chick wrote:QR_BBPOST Color is difficult to judge on the computer screen, but if the parents are Black over Splash, you have done an outcross, since each color Black, Blue and Splash are a separate variety and should be bread separately.
The blue chicks from my black/splash breeding don't have any brown that I can see.
I bred my black rooster to what I thought was a black hen, and which turns out to be a blue, and a couple of her blue chicks look black on the top with blue fluff (like her), they both have a duller look to their top feathers than her black chick. It could be brownish. The lighting isn't that good. I'll try to take a picture with a flash and see what they look like. The hen has dark black top feathers with green sheen, and medium blue fluff.