barred easter egger?

[haTHOR]

Back in post #96 i showed pics of my barred EE Esme, who was a great layer of huge light green eggs. I lost her to a dog a few days ago and am taking tsock of what offspring from her I still have, so I can work more with the barred EE (olive eggers).

I have three birds from her X FCBM roo.

the first is a black girl with super mossy feathering and feathered legs--looks like a very mossy FCBM, and has a straight comb.

the other two are barred. they both had spots on head, but their barring looked very different as they grew. They are now 3 months old. I think I have a female and a male. what do you think?

man i hate trying to sex EEs!!!

both birds

 

[newlyweds]

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I am going with they are both hen colored roosters, with combs those sizes and so red at 3 months, the feathering can throw you off especially. Because the hen was barred and the rooster wasn't her offspring roosters will be barred and the pullets will most likely be solid black. I would keep the pea combed rooster to breed for you Olive Eggers.

 

[haTHOR]

thank you. what do you think about that super mossy girl i got out of the cross of barred EE hen and FCBM (pure)? does that still count as solid black even though the mossy is a big old bib all around neck and full chest?

also...if i do breed the pea combed barred roo to my ameracauna girls, i'll get some barred, some not, correct? (AA pullets are white and gray).
if i breed that pea combed roo to my black OE (comes from heterozygous pea comb EE hen X AA roo

 

[newlyweds]

On the barred chick on page 96, how does she look now, def a pea comb.

If you bred the Barred Rooster to ameracauna you should get all barred pullets (some may even be blue barred) but you will get a very light olive or just blue eggs from that breeding more of an EE color. But if you looking for more of an olive colored egg I think your best bet is to bred back to you OE hen. Then you will get some barred OE pullets that you can bred to the rooster again. Then the offspring will be barred both roosters and pullets.

 

[haTHOR]

Jenna, she grew into a beautiful pea comb clean faced EE, but I lost her to a dog a few days ago--which is why i am trying to salvage what i can from her offspring.

Thanks for laying out the options for me! I think I am gonna try what you said as well as breeding that pea combed OE roo to my FCBM gals...see about getting a real range of olive eggs that way...light olive green eggs from the barred OE roo X ameracaunas, dark olive eggs from barred OE roo X FCBM gals. then i can keep working on a medium olive with the FCBM roo X ameracaunas.

If you bred the Barred Rooster to ameracauna you should get all barred pullets (some may even be blue barred) but you will get a very light olive or just blue eggs from that breeding more of an EE color. But if you looking for more of an olive colored egg I think your best bet is to bred back to you OE hen. Then you will get some barred OE pullets that you can bred to the rooster again. Then the offspring will be barred both roosters and pullets.

can't wait for spring!​

 

[newlyweds]

Joy- I did read that, so sorry about the loss of your hen, I lost a BCM to a dog a few months ago and I am still mad about it, so very frustrating.

I think your plan will give you a great bunch of OE's, keep up the great work!

 

[cmom]

I recently got some eggs from my neighbor. The rooster is a Barred Rock and the hen is an Ameraucana. So far 4 eggs have hatched and two are black like Barred Rock chicks and 2 are more of a buff color. Any ideas on what they will look like?

 

[nicalandia]

I recently got some eggs from my neighbor. The rooster is a Barred Rock and the hen is an Ameraucana. So far 4 eggs have hatched and two are black like Barred Rock chicks and 2 are more of a buff color. Any ideas on what they will look like?

what´s the color of the Ameraucana hen? white? if she is white then she must be only heterozygous for white(I/i+) making those white looking chicks also barred like the black ones,BUT since Dominant white covers barring, they will not show it

 

[speckledhen]

I figured that hen had to be white to get those chicks out of a barred rooster. Hey, Marvin, maybe I'm learning something after all, LOL!

This is my latest barred EE pullet chick, almost 5 weeks old. Her sire was my show quality heritage type BR rooster, Rex, and her mama is my 1/2 BW Ameraucana EE, Maretta.

 

[cmom]

I found this picture on another site. The hen is very similar looking to this pic.