Blue Laced Red Wyandottes

*** PLEASE NOTE: We no longer breed Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. This page is for reference purposes only. ***

About Wyandottes

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Hen Bred by North Star Poultry.

Few chickens are more beautiful than a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hen with her rich-mahogany plumage finely laced in blue. Although a relative newcomer to the color palette of Wyandottes, the Blue Laced Red has taken her place beside the old standbys as an excellent dual-purpose chicken for egg and meat production.

   At North Star Poultry, we breed quality Blue Laced Red Wyandottes to the American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection. Our Wyandottes have correct type, size, and color, and they win shows (see below).

   Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hens lay large creamy-brown eggs. Abundant, fluffy feathering and close-fitting rose combs make them almost impervious to cold weather.

Our hens lay great right through record low winter temperatures in Montana.

Blue Laced Red Wyandottes also make good heritage meat chickens. Cockerels dress out at 5 pounds or so at five months old. Blue Laced Red Wyandotte is the most flavorful chicken we have tasted.

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hens are curious, friendly, and sometimes a little sassy. Cocks behave like gentlemen with their hens and are well mannered toward humans. We have never had a mean cock. Hens will set if allowed and are good mothers. Some of our broody hens adopt up to 70 chicks at a time--with heat lamps to help brood all those chicks, of course.

We breed our birds to the American Poultry Association (APA) Wyandotte Shape Standard and the proposed APA Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Color Standard. In addition, we emphasize productivity and vitality in our flock to maximize the breed's practicality for people interested in a sustainable eggs-and-meat farm flock.

Characteristics we focus on in our breeding program
~ Vitality, fertility, and hatchability
~ Excellent production of quality eggs
~ APA Standard weights
~ Sound, sturdy conformation and structure
~ Wide, deep, round bodies
~ Large, bright eyes.
~ Smoothness of blending
~ Well-spread tails
~ Abundant, soft feathering
~ Wide, glossy feathers
~ Clean, diamond-shaped lacing
~ Deep mahogany red (notably in the hackles); dark blue
~ Good eye and leg color
~ Correct combs and wattles
~ Personality
Our flock has produced exclusively rose-combed chicks, so we can reasonably assume that our birds don't carry genes for incorrect types of combs.

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Cock Bred by North Star Poultry.

Each year we run two to eleven separate breeding pens and raise 100-300 chicks from which we select the best birds for our future breeding stock.

North Star Poultry is currently working to meet the requirements to have the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte admitted into the APA American Standard of Perfection.

In a 2016 poultry show he was judging, an American Poultry Association judge saw some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes shown by our customers. The birds impressed him, and he visited our farm to take a look at the parent flock for himself. After seeing our flock, he told us that our Blue Laced Red Wyandottes were some of the best he had seen.

For answers to commonly asked questions or for more information, go to our Wyandotte FAQ page.

Further Reading About Wyandottes
~ Feathersite: Wyandottes: The American Breed with an Indian Name and Eurasian Background
~ Foley's Waterfowl: Origin of the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
~ Oklahoma State University Department of Animal Science: Poultry Breeds, Wyandotte Chickens
~ The Livestock Conservancy: Wyandotte Chicken

See Our Wyandotte Photo Gallery Below

Show Wins by Blue Laced Red Wyandottes Bred at North Star Poultry
- 2019 Western Montana Fair, Montana, Grand Champion Chicken, won by blue-phase pullet (photo below). Owned and shown by Kloey Dunn.
- 2019 Spokane Interstate Fair, Washington, Best in Show, won by black-phase pullet (photo below). Owned and shown by Aaron Crummett.
- 2019 Lake County Fair, Montana, 4-H Grand Champion Chicken, won by blue-phase hen (photo below). Shown by Rosslyn Wilson.
- 2016 Ravalli County Fair, Montana, Best of Show, won by black-phase pullet (photo below). Owned and shown by Katie Jackson.
- 2016 Ravalli County Fair, Montana, Reserve Champion American, won by blue-phase cockerel. Owned and shown by Katie Jackson.
If you won with Wyandottes you acquired from North Star Poultry, we would love to add the results to this page!

2016 Ravalli County Fair Best of Show, black-phase Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Pullet, Owned and Shown by Katie Jackson.

2019 Lake County Fair 4-H Grand Champion Chicken, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Hen "Nelly," Shown by Rosslyn Wilson. Photo Courtesy of Donna Wilson.

2019 Spokane Interstate Fair Best In Show, black-phase Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Pullet, Owned and Shown by Aaron Crummett. Photo Courtesy of Mehra Crummett.

2019 Western Montana Fair Grand Champion, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Pullet. Owned and shown by Kloey Dunn. Photo Courtesy of Karrie Dunn.

Gallery

2019 Hatched Birds

2019 Spokane Interstate Fair Best In Show, black-phase Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Pullet, Owned and Shown by Aaron Crummett. Photo Courtesy of Mehra Crummett.