barred easter egger?

[HHandbasket]

Oooh, look at that lav cuckoo EE! Beautiful bird.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Oh my! She is just gorgeous!!! I wasn't going to keep any of my olive egger roo's who are barred, but now you have me thinking!

I have a golden cuckoo marans hen covered my a lavender ameraucana roo. They are producing sex-linked chicks with the males being barred. How would I achieve the lavender cuckoo? I do have a lav ameraucana hen. I'm thinking I'd have to cross her to my barred ee/oe roo to get some chicks split for lav and some split for barring and then breed them back to the parents and maybe repeat a few times? Could take awhile.............

Here's my oldest barred olive egger roo. I have probably over 10 of these if anyone local wants one! The boys very much outweighed the girls in hatching! Most of them seem to have the beard & muffs and it's about 50/50 on who got the single comb vs pea comb.

I just realized that these roo's are already split for lavender! So if I mate them to my lav am hen, I should hatch out some babies that are lavender and split for the barred gene? Mate those back to the barred roo, and I could have some of those barred lavender ee's??? Whoooo hoooooooooooooo!!!

 

[jerryse]

It is actually a young cockerel.Lav is recessive so take a barred/lav split back to a lav and if it is a rooster like you described about 50% of the chicks of both sexes should be barred.Half of those should be barred lav.If you have to use the lav/black split pullets the percentage should be 25% lav with half being barred.In my experience the percentage is actually lower.Closer to 10%.I am using barring as a aid to sex chicks.I hope to eventually have a flock of Lav cuckoo hens and a flock of cuckoo hens.Then I can cull roosters at day old.This bird came out of a cuckoo/lav split roo and black/lav split hens.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Thanks so much! Yes, I love the ability to sex link with these! Didn't think to take it to lavender cuckoo until I saw your bird though! Like I need another project!!!! LOL! But I do have black/lav split hens in the grow out pen, so it seems very doable.

 

[jerryse]

Yes a lavender is first a black and 2 copies turns black to lav.A barred bird is also black first and then the barring gene turns it barred in the presence of slow feathering gene or cuckoo in the presence of fast feathering.Barring also turns slate legs to white with slate spots.They are still pure for slate legs and do not ruin leg color in a line of ameraucanas.Many say it is a deal breaker to getting them into the ameraucana standard.I disagree but do not wish to argue the point.Barring is so useful in sexing chicks that I want to use it.

 

[Sebrightmom]

That cuckoo lavender is beautiful. I have two of my barred rock hens in with my Lavender Ameraucana roosters. I have always wanted to hatch out their eggs to work on lavender barred chicks but haven't done it. I just eat their eggs. Anyone interested in their eggs.

I would make a great deal on them.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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With your Lavender Bantam Ameraucanas? And are the BR's Bantam Barred Rocks?

Speaking of Bantam Ameraucanas, the ones I bought from you are doing GREAT!! I hatched out 13 Lavender, 3 Blue, and 2 Black. Haven't lost one yet!

I think I ended up with 4 Lavender males and 9 females, one of the Lav males is so sweet, he comes and jumps in my lap!

Question: one of the roosters has a crossed beak, will he pass that trait on to his offspring?

 

[Snowygirl]

wow.....is she BEAUTIFUL or what!!

 

[jerryse]

Crossed beaks are passed on.Do not breed from one.It was fairly common on some of the lavender bantams but has been bred out to the point of being rare now.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Ah, thank you very much.

It's sad because the little fella is crowing just normal and is pretty high in the pecking order and eats/drinks just fine. Not to mention he has a good temperment.

He will make somebody a good pet.