100% Male Hatches?

[AmericanMom]

I LOVE the color or your EE/Orpington pullet, American Mom. I'm trying for something similar. This is the cockerel my friend hatched out under her broody girl for me last fall. The mother was Barred Rock and the father the rooster whose picture I posted above. I just loved the blue and white barring, but unfortunately the chick died at just 8 weeks old. We think my friend's Jersey Giant jumped on top of him in the nesting box and crushed him during the night. He was sooo pretty. I adore the blue and white combo. I realize a hen from such a coupling won't have this coloring, due to the genetics of only males inheriting the barring from a Barred Rock, when the rooster is a solid colored male, but at least I got to enjoy the cockerel's looks for 8 weeks.

I love the coloring pattern on him! So sad you lost him! This is one of Blues EE sons that we kept for breeding.. Getting much better luck on the Roo-Pullet ratio this year, typically 60/40 either way

 

[ClareScifi]

Your Blue Boy is so pretty, American Mom! Here is "Big Boy Bleu," another cockerel my rooster fathered, this time by a white mother hen:

 

[AmericanMom]

Your Blue Boy is so pretty, American Mom! Here is "Big Boy Bleu," another cockerel my rooster fathered, this time by a white mother hen:

LOL.. I will have to run out and get a photo, but I have a young Cockerel (headed to freezer camp

) that could be this ones twin!

 

[ClareScifi]

What a showy rooster for breeding! I can see why you kept him! Just gorgeous! This is the chick that hatched in my friend's incubator. I think he looks just like the chick who was crushed to death at 8 weeks, Spunky Bleu. This little guy is named "Leggz Benedict," and my friend is going to keep him. I am in hopes he will be able to breed him and develop a "Blue Gingham" line of chickens. He has 40 chickens, far more than I have (8), and he has fancy English Orpingtons he got from England. So who knows what might result?

 

[AmericanMom]

American Mom, do you think my rooster could have EE in him? Some say so. This is a picture of him as a teen:

Im not an authority on the matter unless there are obvious color patterns , better to post this picture in the What breed section...

 

[ClareScifi]

My full grown rooster, "Pecton Picton," when he was a tiny baby boy:

 

[AmericanMom]

What a showy rooster for breeding! I can see why you kept him! Just gorgeous! This is the chick that hatched in my friend's incubator. I think he looks just like the chick who was crushed to death at 8 weeks, Spunky Bleu. This little guy is named "Leggz Benedict," and my friend is going to keep him. I am in hopes he will be able to breed him and develop a "Blue Gingham" line of chickens. He has 40 chickens, far more than I have (8), and he has fancy English Orpingtons he got from England. So who knows what might result?

Cute Chick!! I love the English orps, they are so very pretty and stately looking! Good luck , pictures if it works!

That's your problem, you need far more than 8 hens ...

I started with 12 and now I have between 20 and 100

 

[ClareScifi]

I did post it in the What Breed section a while back, and some thought Orpington, some thought Easter Egger.

 

[ClareScifi]

I really don't care what a resulting pullet looks like. I just want to propagate "Esther Mary" before she dies, via a pullet chick. She has the sweetest personality and has been known to lay 2 eggs per day. She's 5 now and still lays about an egg a day. If I don't get any more cockerels, that's fine. I'd just love her female offspring. Here she is playing Stepmom to another hen's chick:

 

[CrazyChickLady7]

Looks like he could be ... Here is my blue.. I am not even kidding about the rooster explosion last year, I ended up in Sept buying pullets from the feed store because my grand idea of hatching my own flock was an epic failure... My fault too for spending so much time and energy on those two hens and trying to get pullets from them.

are those jubilees