“Simple” question about breeding a barred rooster to various hens.

[GulfBamaChick]

THANK YOU!!!! Exactly what I was looking for

 

[donrae]

I had a black sex link rooster as my main guy for a few years. Most of these hens came from this hen


or her look-alike sister. They were EE/brown Leghorn crosses. I got these birds








crossing him with a silver laced Wyandotte hen gave me this pretty lady



So, you won't get only black barred birds! Half will be barred, half won't ( I only had pics of the barred ones, I sold the solids). Black is dominant over a lot of colors, but with his leakage he looks to have other colors hiding under that black. I say hatch out a mess of chicks and see what you get! But, always have a plan for your cockerels before you hatch. Even pretty boys like these


wind up in the pot around here.

 

[GulfBamaChick]

THANK YOU sooooo much. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I really appreciate it beautiful birds! I do plan to hatch out a mess of them now, and my plan for the cockerels include salt and pepper!

 

[donrae]

Any time

. I'm with you, I like the black birds well enough, but I also like visual variety. I just don't see myself ever having a single breed flock.

 

[speckledhen]

Sort of depends on what your single barred rooster has in his background. Recently, my single factor barred rooster, Rex, with his barred half sister, Delia, produced a WHITE chick. Now, Rex and Dee are both 1/2 Delaware, but I expected a black chick or a barred chick, but it was Delaware colored. Astounding and unexpected.

A normal BR rooster would pass barring to all his chicks, but a single barred like my Rex will pass it to only half of his progeny, producing some barreds and some blacks. He has two black daughters in with him now. And then there's this weirdo:





This is Rex, who is 1/2 Delaware and 1/2 BR.

Aren't genetics interesting?

 

[GulfBamaChick]

WOW! That is interesting! I LOVE white chickens. I wish I knew what my Cecil was mixed with. He has neon green, neon orange, and gold popping in various places. Your chickens are very beautiful.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you. Sometimes, you just have to breed a bird to see what's in him. I know what's in mine, but I still get surprised at times, LOL.