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Thanks for your expertise.

I agree! He’s beautiful but a bit of an a-hole. But he’s pretty good to the hens. Ernie bears the brunt of his aggression. I have 15 young chicks to deal with now and 7 are little cockerels! I hope I can make it another month with them but then it’s culling time. They’re starting to be pretty...

I just find it interesting that none of these 18 chicks seem to have been sired by my barred rock rooster. I know I’ve seen him breed them occasionally but the EE rooster is top dog so he always tries to stop anything like that happening. But I’ve seen Ernie get a hen all to himself and complete...

Yes. He’s from a brown egg. Rir momma.

I’m pretty sure he’s a purebred barred rock. I’ll attach a pic. But I do think the ee is the father anyway because of the beautiful gold hackles and saddle feathers and the green tinted black tail feathers.

He’s getting gold hackles and saddle feathers.

Here he is. This is when he was a little younger and one recently

One final question. I have one white with green tail feathers and some reddish and black spots cockerel. He’s huge. Largest of all chicks. He has yellow legs and a large single comb. Is there any chance that he is my barred rock roosters offspring? I’ll post a picture from my phone in a second...

Thank you both for your great explanation.

I do have one red pullet from this cross. And one red cockerel. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It’s a crap shoot with EEs I guess. I know their sire is the ee rooster though because the pullet has green legs and the cockerel has an amazing pea comb.

Anyone? Is it recessive in rir’s?

White pullets from rir hens

And how do you get these somewhat white birds from this roo and rir hens? I’ll post a picture.

I have chicks from a EE roo x RIR hens. All these chicks came from brown eggs. What are the chances that the pullets will lay colored eggs? I also have chicks from the EE ROO X EE hens. All of these chicks came from blue/green eggs. Will these pullets carry on the blue/green egg trait?