The Rhodebar thread!

[dhopper122]

Well, I have a question. Is anyone selling some Roos? today, I found a pile of feathers with skin and fatty tissues attached outside of the pen, but no body to be found. That pretty pic of my roos,, is no more. I will have to wait for next spring, but will be will to pay for either live hatching eggs or sexed chicks and the shipping. It looks like I have a great horned owl targeting my flock. My fault as its an open top pen, but that will change soon. I want so bad to set up high voltage to quick fry what ever is killing my birds.

 

[stryker]

I had that problem with dogs and I ended up putting up electric fence and it works very well. That is too bad for your loss.

 

[stryker]

I had some rhodebars and kept the rooster that is on my avatar. I was getting green eggs off the rhodebar pullets so they went to a place when they were hens as green egg layers. I kept the roo to see if he threw the blue egg gene and put him over welsummers. Look what I have in this welsummer X Rhodebar pullets first egg! From left to right Welsummer, buckeye, and the olive egg (WelsummerXRhodebar). This is a good way to determine if the roo is throwing an off gene and he is now going to a good place as well. Of course I love the olive color.

 

[rc50]

If you breed a blue egg layer to a brown egg layer you get... green.... if you breed a blue egg layer to a white egg layer you get blue....
just info

have a great one

 

[dheltzel]

Does anyone else have both Rhodebars and Bielefelders?

They seem very similar to me. Some slight color and size variations. The BF's are not laying yet, I hope they lay as well as the Rhodebars. I am considering putting my spare BF roo over some RB hens to see of the resulting hybrids are autosexing and perhaps even better layers. Has anyone tried that hybrid already?

 

[michaelf]

If you breed a blue egg layer to a brown egg layer you get... green.... if you breed a blue egg layer to a white egg layer you get blue....
just info

have a great one

And if you breed a green egg layer to a white egg layer you still get green eggs. I took an olive cock bird and put over some white leghorns got olive eggers that started laying a ton of eggs about 20 weeks

 

[michaelf]

These are part of the improvement plan(RB) these are Backcross xBackcross chicks

 

[stryker]

And if you breed a green egg layer to a white egg layer you still get green eggs. I took an olive cock bird and put over some white leghorns got olive eggers that started laying a ton of eggs about 20 weeks

I was just hoping for some reason that the rooster was not throwing that green gene. Oh well, I have a home he is going to that does not care about egg color as long the chicken looks good.

 

[stryker]

These are part of the improvement plan(RB) these are Backcross xBackcross chicks

 

[michaelf]

A backcross contract cockeral..