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Our white 'rock stars' do seem to have ghost barring. It is hard for me to see the bars specifically, but the barring gives the chicks a 'texture'. They look a little bit as though they have tight waves in the feathers...Since there are no actual waves, it is just the slight color variation on...

I started a thread when on of the chicks started feathering out much faster than the others...I have some pics of all the chicks. The white ones are still white and 1 has 1 or 2 black feathers with barring. The others appear solid. No ghost barring that I can discern...

I will definitely post pics when they feather out. I am curious as well.

Thanks donrae. It will be interesting to see how the they all look feathered out, especially the white ones. He did look double barred to me, but not as finely barred as pics of 'real' BPRs. My roo was given to me and is supposed to be pure, but I dont really know where he comes from...

So...Should a barred rock roo have double barring? I know with Rhodebar roos you can tell which is double barred and which is single and, I think, the double barred is better for breeding. I am not easily finding the barred rock genetics....Also seeing that my boy has tight bars but other...

Thanks for the analysis and link. Pretty cool. I really thought we would get all barred, but did forget that the RSs have white in them. We picked this cross (we have rir--or production reds depending whose opinion I listen to!, BO, EEs and the RS) because we love the RS productivity, but...

I am looking for a little information about our recent cross between a Barred Rock roo and our 3 Red Star hens. We hatched 8 chicks yesterday. 4 are black with head spots and some yellow/white on their backs and 4 are yellow. I was actually expecting all chicks to be similar. And I was...