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Well guys her's an update on my attempted hatch. 0% hatched, a couple showed some development but it looks like they all died in the first few days :( so no rhodebars for me yet. the Hrirs I set with them also didn't hatch, nor develop much.

Quote: What I would recommend Is doing 2 pens of pullets, with pullets that are selected staying with the maternal flock and selecting cocks from the other pen. so each pen is producing cocks for the other pen. They would be related but not too closely to breed from. Then when you need to...

OK, so I set my eggs 8 days ago and candled this morning. I'm not seeing any development in any, but If they were good I should be right? they don't stink but They all look clear. Or are the developments this early not easy to see?

If you know the sire was double barred then they should both be. If you don't know that, you should tag them both so you can tell which was lighter down and which was darker down and judge from the adult plumage if they both turn out to be double barred then breed from the one with the darker down.

The point I was trying to make is, with the current state of the rhodebar stock out there, a new breeder who wants to improve the breed would want some Heritage Rhode island reds to cross back into the line as well, so by supplying eggs, or chicks from an imperfect rhodebar line, as well as...

My opinion is this. No one ever has all perfect birds of any breed. Alto of people would be interested in them even knowing that they need a lot of work. Some may want to start and work with them to improve them themselves, which would be a benefit to the breed, since the more people working...

I would love to get that kind of ratio 2 cockerels to 11 pullets. That means you can select the best roo and the top say 5 or 6 pullets and have a full pen to produce the next generation. That would give you a pretty full incubator too so you could have even more to select from for the next...

Yes They were at room temp for about 10 or 12 hours before I set them

This is strange. With in hours of setting the eggs in the incubator 2 of them exploded. Doesn't it take a bit longer than that for bacteria to get established and cause a buildup of gas? Odd thing though there wasn't a bad smell, just a pop sound and one right after the other with a crack...

that's good news, I'll cross my fingers and hope they do well. This is my first experience with shipped eggs.

I'm just curious, Has anyone here hatched eggs that have gotten cold, not frozen or damaged but definitely chilled? I'm just wondering what effect the temperature in the post office mail storage room for a few hours might have had on my hatch rate,. Because the mail truck drops off mail at the...

Got my rhodebar eggs from pappa brooder today. he sent me a couple extras and they all arrived in one piece. there's someone who knows how to ship eggs. Now hopefully the cold weather didn't hurt them.

Very nice, how did you contrive to make the partitions removable? That seems like it would be very useful when you don't have breeders in them.

You will know for sure once they feather out, If they are single barred there will be much finer barring. If as they grow the bars are nice and thick then you can be certain that they are double barred. As long as the cock was double barred and the hen was barred they will all be double barred...

Or Put a band on his leg so you can always identify him.

So, if the middle three are the rhode bars then you have two cockerels and a pullet. although, I'd be willing to be corrected by someone experienced with actually hatching rhode bars.

And do your three rhodebar chicks also have the chipmunk striped look? If they do have a clear chipmunk look to them that is a dead give away that the have the wild type e+ allele at the E locus.

Keep in mind that when you back cross you are going to lock in the traits of the parent you back cross to. so if you cross the pullets back to the inferior male that you are wanting to improve you will simply lock in the faults of the original cockerel. That's why you use the cockerels in the...

That is only partially true, as the e locus on those f1 pullets will be heterozygous for the wheaton allele. the given crosses will work but only some of the f2 chicks will be pure, i.e. properly barred and homozygouse for the wild type e allele. the barring will be correct in all f2 chicks but...

The reason we keep going back to the RIR is because the rhode bar standard is pretty much identical to the rhode island red, except for the autosexing ability from the barring. So back crossing to high quality rhode island reds will bring your offspring closer to what the breed should be.