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My rhodebar roo. The lone survivor of the gff chicks. His pose worthy of any runway model! LOL

Well said and not snotty at all. Your efforts are truly appreciated by those of us that want the correct genetics. Keep up the good work.

Well I would say yes. I purchased chicks from an auction from GFF and so far half the flock has died off. Not sure why all my other birds are healthy and the RB are in a pen by themselves. But I'm slowly losing a bird like 2 a month they are only 4 months old.

My Rhodebars from GFF...they are cute

Well said and grateful to those of you that are "anal" so the rest of us have a resource to improve or obtain these rare breeds. On another note- hopefully your birds/eggs will be available in future to use as standards to go by

I'm thinking the female looks too much like a welsummer

Yes but what do you think of their feathering so far?

Ok here are a couple pics all I've managed to do this far haven't had much time to really inspect them

??? What do you mean? I figure I will wait till they feather out then start separating for cull. But is there something else I should be looking for in their beak style??

Rhodebars from GFF....will post as they grow

Well I'm getting 12 day old chicks from GFF tomorrow so I will take pictures when they get here to see what I get.

I caved and bid for GF birds...hoping they are nice and healthy. So I get to start my RB project sooner than I thought! Very excited!

Well it may be a barred rock hen not sure. didn't tag them after they hatched so ...hey what can I say backyard breeder :-) But that's ok if they have barred rock in the Cuckoo Maran, it's the barring gene I'm going for whether it's a CM barring gene or Barred rock gene doesn't matter. I planned...

Thank you...was having trouble figuring out the gene notations. When what I wanted to do was plug in the breed and have it give me an estimated offspring since typically most chickens may have other gene markers but not expressing them. if that makes any sense.

is there no way to simplify the chicken calculator to use breeds instead of gene notations?

That's my daughter! LOL ...well I've got some Welsummer's coming next month so that will work out perfect. And like I said it's an experiment so the process will be fun! but I will keep posting pics as I go along. Thanks again niclandia ..I really appreciate the help.

here are pics of what I'm going to try and cross...we'll see what happens RIR roo CM roo CM hen RIR hen going to cross them see what hatches then go from there. I know its starting from scratch but unless I can get a pair of Rhodebar's it's all I've got right now. :-)

Well I've been reading all of the posts and lots of great information! I have lots of experimenting to do. personally I don't mind the feathered legs and I like the crazy zigzag of the cuckoo pattern but what I'm going for is a Hardy, dual purpose, good egg producer that's got some flash that...